An extremely rare two-stroke Welbike built to carry British Paratroopers into battle in World War II, has come up for auction. The 1942 bike – which was owned and brought back from the war by ...

As the Allies prepared to invade Normandy, a small team of SAS commandos and 400 straw-filled burlap dummies duped the Nazis ...

Unlike the D-Day invasion, where gliders and paratroopers dropped directly onto crucial bridges behind the invasion beaches under the cover of night, British troops heading to Arnhem parachuted up ...

In an airborne spectacular, 700 paratroopers from eight Nato nations ... Among them were members of the parachute display team, the British Red Devils. The airdrop is one of several events ...

A procession was held through Mullion in memory of Herbert "Herbie" Samuel Bray Veterans pay tribute to Herbert "Herbie" Samuel Bray, thought to be one of the last-surviving British paratroopers ...

FILE PHOTO: Paratroopers jump into Normandy to pay tribute to the soldiers who parachuted in on D-Day in Sannerville, Normandy 30,899 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it ...

open image in gallery Hundreds of soldiers parachuted into the same rural drop zone in Normandy which was used on D-Day 80 years ago (Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire) The British paratroopers jumped out of ...

Set in 1943, Operation Mincemeat follows two British intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, as they hatch an elaborate plan to mislead Nazi Germany. Article continues below ...

Veterans pay tribute to Herbert "Herbie" Samuel Bray, thought to be one of the last-surviving British paratroopers from World War Two Mr Bray, from Mullion, died in October, aged 97 A funeral ...