Royal New Zealand Navy veteran Ken Gordon has received a letter from King Charles thanking him for his war service. To mark ...

Timelapse footage shows Madrid plunged into near-total darkness as Spain and Portugal battled a massive power outage. The rare blackout grounded planes, halted transport, and forced hospital closures, ...

World War evacuee has recalled how mass evacuations from London during the Blitz separated children from their families and ...

At the northern end of the Black Sea, Crimea sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, having been at various times in its ...

In April 1945, as Nazi Germany is on the brink of defeat, the Swedish Red Cross launches the largest rescue operation of World War II. The mission ... be taken to a hospital.

On D-Day Nurse Joyce Dandridge from Wooburn was waiting anxiously in a train in a railway siding somewhere on the south coast. It was no ordinary train, having been converted to an ambulance train.

A few hundred union members and supporters rallied at Spellerberg Park in Sioux Falls to raise concerns about how they ...

As the sun soaks the east coast of K'gari (Fraser Island), silence falls over the crowd of hundreds that gather around the rusted bones of the TSS Maheno. Only the sound of waves crashing ...

A crew exploring the final resting site of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk during World War II found something puzzling ... the first to explore the ship's hangar.

The car's license plate partially reads "SHIP SERVICE __ NAVY," adding to the mystery of its presence on the vessel. Notably, the USS Yorktown, a key player in World War II, sank after the Battle ...

The only black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, commonly known as the Six Triple Eight, will be presented Tuesday with the Congressional Gold Medal, following a long ...