In early 1945, the U.S. launched an aerial offensive on the Japanese naval base at Kure, targeting the battleship Haruna. Defending the base were elite Japanese fighter instructors piloting Kawanishi ...

Dorothea Barron spent much of the war in Scotland, being stationed at Port Edgar on the Firth of Forth, Rosyth in Fife, ...

On 8 May this year it's the 80th anniversary of VE - or Victory in Europe - Day, with special concerts, remembrance services ...

EXCLUSIVE: As some councils toy with the idea of scaling back, or cancelling, VE Day events those who lived through the dark days of the Second World War issue a warning and tell them to stop being so ...

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2 we’ve created ... into force on May 8, 1945, it marked the official end ...

Prime Minister King promised a trade treaty with the U.S., passing the 1935 Reciprocal Trade Agreement. In 1936, his ...

Apart from PM Modi, Russia has also invited leaders of several other friendly nations to attend this year’s Victory Day parade at the iconic Red Square.

Hamburg was, literally, a dry run for what came later; the aim was to maximise the number of barbecued civilians by, among ...

The German government on Wednesday warned against Russian efforts to "instrumentalise" events marking the 80th anniversary of ...

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. Each address was mailed ...

The United States and Japan need to work together to align their defense forces in the face of an increasingly assertive China, new U.S. Ambassador George Glass said upon his arrival in Tokyo on ...