Adolf Hitler's army launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest invasion in history, sweeping into Russia with devastating speed. The Red Army, poorly organized and underprepared was caught off-guard ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a ...

Organisers of a popular Sheffield gala have issued an update after a planned flypast by an iconic second world war aircraft ...

Britain's oldest man turns 110 - and celebrates his milestone birthday with a war-themed party Britain's oldest Second World ...

Donald Rose, who died yesterday at 110, was born on Christmas Eve in 1914 and was just 25 when he signed up to fight on the ...

The sacrifice of a pair of Salem brothers killed while serving in World War II was honored in a presentation at the Memorial ...

Pvt. Richard Gordon Wright, an Oklahoma Marine killed in World War II during the battle of Tarawa, was honored at a busy ...