Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history buffs. British, Canadian and American forces took off mostly from Essex ...

The last European airborne operation of World War Two was "testament to the skills of the RAF crews" based at Essex and ...

Along with details of dogfights over the German-occupied Rhine Valley, pilots began reporting inexplicable lights following their aircraft. One night in November 1944, a Bristol Beaufighter crew ...

Joining up at the start of the war, London-born Mr Barnes went on to serve for 23 years and said sinking a German U-boat was ... Almost 80 years since the end of WW2, Mr Barnes, who moved to ...

Colin (left) and Sean Welch search for fragments of a German V-2 missile in the British village Lynsted. Their other quarry is the V-1 “doodlebug”—thousands of which were shot down over the ...

The fighters provided crucial air support for the D-Day landings and many were adapted to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning the ...

But the British Paratroopers tasked with capturing and holding the bridges at Arnhem were faced with much fiercer German opposition than Allied Intelligence predicted, in particular elite Panzer ...

Paratroopers were snapped for a newspaper early on the morning of 24 March 1945, drinking tea before getting into planes to be dropped over Germany [Danny Mason handout] ...

Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history ...

British, Canadian and American forces took off mostly from Essex airfields on 24 March 1945, to be dropped directly on top of the German lines at the River Rhine. Paratroopers and gliders packed ...