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 ...

Amid the chaos of the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944, Major Digby, a fearless British paratrooper, stood out with an unconventional weapon in hand. Like a true British gentleman, the Major ...

A WW2 veteran, whose parachute jump to mark the ... Operation Market Garden saw 35,000 British, American and Polish troops parachute or glide behind German lines in a bid to open up an attack ...

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Veterans pay tribute to Herbert "Herbie" Samuel Bray, thought to be one of the last-surviving British paratroopers ... respects to a former World War Two paratrooper. Herbert "Herbie" Samuel ...

ACTOR Richard Todd’s red paratrooper beret is up for auction ... “Not only did it belong to one of the leading British film actors from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s but also someone ...

At the end of the 1962 film, The Longest Day, a young American paratrooper shares a cigarette somewhere in Normandy with a British fighter ... families of traumatised WW2 veterans, but one 1986 ...

Told through tens of thousands declassified British intelligence documents, “Recording Evil” reveals the candid conversations of Nazi officers and soldiers held as prisoners of war during WWII.