U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

He did not really have a formula for living so long, except that he did not drink alcohol in abundance and only smoked cigars ...

Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum will honor fallen sailors from what is now known as ‘The Ship That Would Not Die.’ ...

VE Day celebrations in West Devon will include special free events to mark the eightieth anniversary of Winston Churchill’s ...

EXCLUSIVE: Number 10's 'shameful U-turn' on veterans' funding has sparked anger, chaos and confusion and thrown plans for what will be the last pilgrimage to Normandy for many Second World War heroes ...

Less than 3 million Brits were alive on VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) on May 8, 1945. Even fewer will remember it. Time is running out to save their stories. If we don’t document them now, their ...

Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class Setsuo Ishino, age 19, took off from Kanoya Air Base in Japan’s Kago­shima prefecture. He was ...

A Dorset war hero's recollections of the horror of the scene as he helped liberate German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, are shared here on ...

Montgomery sat alongside Churchill and Eisenhower in this car as they plotted the liberation of Europe. Read about its ...

Eisenhower National Historic Site in Pennsylvania will offer special ranger-guided tours of World War II burial sites in Gettysburg National Cemetery to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day and ...

The French government is preparing to present Alan Kinder, a 100-year-old World War II veteran, with the Legion of Honor, the European country’s highest decoration.