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 ...

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

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 ...

The Burma Railway is one of many grim legacies of the horrors of WWII. Discover the story of how it was constructed and its ...

Technology advanced during World War II at unprecedented rates, ushering Western civilization into the modern era. American ...

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

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

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

What does history have to say? There are certain similarities between the current US-China stand-off and the situation that led to war between the US and Japan. In the decades leading up to World War ...

It has been 80 years since World War II fighting ended in Europe. However, did you know that even royals snuck outside to ...

#2 The Dutch Secret Resistance Cheering When They Found Out Hitler Has Been K**led, 1945 Image credits: Tall_Ant9568 #3 Unknown Lady Walking Down The Street In Harlem, NY, Late 1940s.