German submarines sank 56 Allied ships in the region and damaged another 14, losing just one of their own in the process ...

Keeping war plans secret is vital to save troops’ lives and avoid setbacks. However, the Allies had a trick up their sleeve ...

This is the first time I’ve found anything like this,' Jason Harrison, site manager from Brims Construction commented on the ...

More than 338,000 soldiers of the Allied Forces were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk in France on June 4, 1940, making ...

The man tasked with delivering that all-important forecast was Group Captain Stagg, the chief meteorological adviser to ...

Just a few weeks ago, standing on a bluff overlooking Omaha, the wide beach, just as Dad had described, lay below.

This week, almost 30 World War II veterans have touched down in Normandy, France, for the trip of a lifetime. Many of the ...

A new book makes the case that farmers in Wisconsin and throughout the Midwest were not bystanders to America’s rise as a ...

Few conflicts in history can claim to have reshaped the world like the Second World War and as such it continues to inspire study and debate from academics down to the ordinary person in the street.

Around 1,500,000 bombs were dropped on Cologne during the Second World War, with experts estimating 20 per cent of those not ...