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A Second World War veteran who served in the RAF recalled his gruelling time as a prisoner of war after being shot down over Germany as he joined comrades at a Buckingham Palace garden party. Harry ...

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and ...

David Threlfall and Arinzé Kene star in the long-awaited UK premiere of this surreal post-Iraq War Broadway smash ...

The official surrender of Nazi Germany to Allied forces took place on May 8, 1945, ending a brutal war that claimed tens of millions of lived and reshaped global history. London’s commemorations ...

At the start of May 1945, the Second World War was all but over ... Huge crowds at Trafalgar Square celebrate (Victory in Europe Day in London (PA) On the day itself, May 8, parades, street ...

Almost a year ago, the Elk Grove City Council approved the Sacramento Zoo’s relocation from its current location in Land Park. But last week, the Sacramento Zoological Society and Elk Grove ...

The King and Queen are said to be looking forward to this week’s events to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day and to remember the “selfless devotion, duty and service” of the wartime ...

London’s HMCS Prevost is preparing to unveil a new memorial that commemorates Canadians killed in the Second World War’s longest battle. The Battle of the Atlantic memorial at the fork of the ...

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LONDON (AP) — John Goldsmith was too young to fight in World War II, but he remembers the rationing, the blackouts and the bombs that devastated his neighborhood in east London. And he remembers ...