Pilsen in the Czech Republic was liberated on the 6th May 1945 by elements of General George Patton’s 3rd Army. Now each year the Czech people remember these events and put on a huge display of armour ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much ...

The 1st Clacton Brownies wrote to Mervyn Kersh, a British Jewish D-Day veteran who helped liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and Sgt Mohammad Hussain, a soldier who served in the British ...

A woman whose family were captured by the Soviet Army just 24 hours after VE Day has written a book about their escape. Ute ...

Widely seen as a turning point in World War II, the June 6, 1944, invasion of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day, has long ...

Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19-year-old Navy gunner's mate, remembers the rough seas and the treacherous landing troops ...

Well, eighty years since VE day! In 1945 the bombings had ceased, the last bullets spent, the flames extinguished. The ...

A famous WWII aircraft has returned home to her "birthplace", now Airbus’ wing building factory in Broughton 80 years on. The ...

The following is a revised and updated version of a column that originally appeared in the May 21, 2020, edition of the Murray Ledger & Times.

Having previously worked in a bookshop for a few years and coming from a family of avid readers, I have read a lot of books, but these five are my all-time favourites.

Hundreds gathered in Prague’s Nusle district on Thursday to commemorate VE Day with a large-scale reenactment of the 1945 Prague Uprising, featuring period uniforms, authentic weapons ...