“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 ...

During most of World War II, Germany dominated submarine warfare with its powerful U-boat fleet that terrorized Allied ...

On April 24, 1945, the USS Flaherty, an Edsall-class destroyer, patrolled the North Atlantic as part of Operation Teardrop – ...

Little wonder, then, that when World War II finally came to an end, the celebrations in Orkney went on long into the night.

IF Nazi spies had been a bit more on the ball as the Allies pushed into Italy during the Second World War, things might have been rather ...

Anti-aircraft weapons have taken a wide range of forms, from the gun batteries and strategically placed barrage balloons of World War II to ... and blimps attacked German U-boats operating on ...

Last man out. In 1946, shortly after leaping from a plummeting B-24 bomber and hiding in caves from Nazi patrols for six ...

This included 12, six-inch guns and an array of anti-aircraft batteries—initially ... at the start of WWII. Unable to mass produce warships or other necessary systems for winning a modern ...

Banned from flying in the U.S., these 25 American women headed to Britain to help ferry military aircraft—and fascinated the ...

On May 3, 1945, one of the greatest and most silenced maritime tragedies of the 20th century unfolded in the Bay of Lübeck in ...

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 his biggest ... years since the end of WW2, Mr Barnes, who moved ...