But when Kennedy learned German officials had announced the surrender in a radio broadcast from Flensburg – a city in Allied ...

VE Day celebrates the end of hostilities in Europe and the formal acceptance by the Allies of Germany's unconditional ...

The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles to be occupied by the Germans during World War Two with islanders ...

By the time liberation came on 9 May 1945, many islanders were reliant on Red Cross parcels to avoid starvation. The BBC and ...

“I ran into the living room and I said ‘there’s a war, there’s a war on’. I was quite excited,” said Ruth, now 98. “I had no idea of the horror in my mother’s face, because she had been a nurse in the ...

A brave young man from Crewe had one hell of a secret to keep during World War II and it was no ordinary secret but frontline ...

Kennedy was waved off when he told military censors that he could not ... It had been 2:41am in Reims, France, when German envoys signed the act of unconditional surrender inside a red‑brick ...

Badenoch and Strathspey’s late war hero Sir Tommy Macpherson is to feature on a new set of Royal Mail stamps marking the end ...

HALIFAX — Over the last week, selected homes across Canada received poignant reminders of military members who fought and died in the final months of the Second World War.