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

(National Archives) World War II was marked by numerous technical advances ... On April 28, 1941, he got command of his first ship, the destroyer McCall. McCall was escorting the aircraft carrier ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The Titanic, billed as an unsinkable ship, hit an iceberg and sank on April ... America and prompted Gibson to move to Paris. As World War II began, there were allegations that she was a Nazi ...

The faint outline of a suspected 1940-41 black Ford Super Deluxe “Woody” was found Saturday by a remotely operated vehicle in the hangar deck of the historic World War II aircraft carrier that ...

When ships and aircraft are added ... exercises and partnering in drug interdiction to humanitarian port calls by hospital ships USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy in the Caribbean and South America.

A crew researching an iconic U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk in the Pacific Ocean during World War II made a remarkable discovery over the weekend. A vehicle was found in the hangar of ...