The French paratroopers were led by the British army's Brig Mike Calvert during the Dutch operation. Here he inspects them as they mark their transfer from British command to the French army The ...

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 ...

His digital museum, full of surprising and obscure facts about carrots, investigates how the idea became so dominant, tracing its roots to propaganda shared by the British government during World ...

While the British government was dealing with a country ... to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. WW2: Did the war change life for women? documentWW2: Did the war change life ...

British, Canadian and American forces took off mostly from Essex airfields on 24 March 1945, to be dropped directly on top of the German lines at the River Rhine. Paratroopers and gliders packed ...

On the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the then French President François Hollande pledged to honour all those British veterans who had served in his country during the war. Vicky Dann, Mr Cracknell's ...

Cleethorpes Coastguard said any ammunition from the aircraft was likely to be "extremely unstable" People are being warned to stay away from the wreckage of a World War Two aircraft because it ...

The WW2 drama also picked up six BAFTA awards and two Golden Globe awards, also appearing in the British FIlm Institute’s top 100 British films of the 20th century and the Guardian’s 25 best ...

Paratroopers from Australia and Britain joined drop training exercises involving Japan and the United States for the first time to simulate rushing to the aid of a remote island under enemy attack.

Paratroopers were snapped for a newspaper early on the morning of 24 March 1945, drinking tea before getting into planes to be dropped over Germany [Danny Mason handout] ...