In the bitter winters of 1944–1945, the Scandinavian volunteers of the Waffan SS faced the relentless Soviet onslaught at ...

AeroTime looks back at the World War II Allied ace pilots from the US, UK, France and Soviet Union who became legends of the ...

"Lucky" was just a wide-eyed 21-year-old lieutenant when he manned the B-17 controls and took to the sky for his first ...

On the afternoon of May 12 1943, in Cap Bon, north-east Tunisia, Gen Theodor Graf von Sponeck, commander of the German 90th ...

Decades after WWII, Marcel and Gloria finally found Elli, the Jewish child hidden from the Nazis by Marcel's parents 80 years ...

On January 1st, 1945, the Allied Air Forces welcomed the New Year with an unexpected, low-level attack from the Luftwaffe. Named Operation Baseplate, or Operation Bodenplatte, the German attack ...

Hero George "Ed" Kelly, better known as Poppy Man, raised more than £400,000 for the annual Remembrance Day appeal after a distinguished flying career.

The Frenchwoman built one of the world's greatest fashion houses - but more details of her involvement with Nazis during World War II, and how she managed to avoid the fate of other traitors once it ...

The first RAF Auxiliary Air Force squadron  to be formed — and the unit credited with bringing down the first German bomber ...

From here, they facilitated the export of nickel from nearby deposits and carried out attacks against Arctic convoys delivering Lend-Lease supplies to the USSR," Medvedev said. "Do the British, who ...

In March 1945, Charles’ family received the heartbreaking news that he had died on February 13, 1945, in a German prison camp ...

Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev finds historical parallels in the behavior of the current leaders of Finland and their predecessors from almost a century ago and recalls t ...