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

With over 4,900 casualties and nearly as many wounded, the Battle of Okinawa was the U.S. Navy’s costliest fight during World ...

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, ...

Most maritime nations could not afford even one such ship. My calculation is that Australia ... It was to employ 6000 people – mostly women – in World War II: today, however, a modern version ...

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

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

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.

As the offensive unfolds, a British Army hospital at Pompeii ... in a slim volume titled Major Barbara’s Memories of World War II. Built in 529, the Abbey of Monte Cassino was destroyed ...

An emergency hospital at Camp Funston ... which would later contribute to the start of World War II. Some historians have attributed Wilson’s confusion to a minor stroke. In fact, he had ...