Liberation Day - 9 May 1945 - is a key moment in the history of the Channel Islands as the occupying forces in Guernsey and ...

Guernsey and Jersey were the only Channel Islands to be liberated on 9 May 1945. Sark was liberated on 10 May 1945 - the ...

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping agreed Russia and China should be “friends of steel”, and vowed to counter American attempts to ...

Exmouth, who was part of the D Day landings, recounts some of her wartime experiences with the Devon County Council for ...

Scotland fell silent to remember its wartime heroes, with a series of events taking place around the country to mark the 80th ...

The nation remembers those who fell in battle as today marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two.

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

After five years under the Nazi jackboot, the Channel Islands were finally liberated on May 9, 1945. But Hitler's 'model ...

“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 ...

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

Since this brought an end to the final theatre, Victory over Japan Day (or VJ Day) marks the official conclusion of World War ...

More than 100 SS troops appeared out of the woods that morning. Despite the state of the German military, they had plenty of ...