On this day in aviation history, February 18, 1944, the Royal Air Force launched a daring mission to liberate imprisoned French resistance fighters through a low-level precision bombing mission that ...

Increasingly alarmed that U.S. security priorities lie elsewhere, a group of European countries has been working on a plan to ...

A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

A woman has been arrested after a car crashed into a British World War II memorial in France. The memorial, a Churchill AVRE ...

Cliff Brown died last month aged 98 at his home in Swanage, Dorset. He was laid to rest today at St Mary's Church in his ...

Whenever Britain faced conflict - from early invasions by the Celts and Romans to WWII when skies were criss-crossed with vapour trails from fighter planes - Sussex, particularly East Sussex, has been ...

Join an engaging WWII historian as you travel along the D-Day beaches and ... After taking the train from Paris to Caen, the capital of Lower Normandy and a target for heavy bombings during the war, ...

Walking through New Orleans’s National WW II Museum, you could be forgiven for thinking the Axis powers were defeated ...

Kim Jong-un has deployed a "zombie" army to the battlefield in Ukraine as North Korean soldiers reportedly hurl themselves into Ukrainian defences in "futile" waves. The premier of the Democratic ...

(Ian Langsdon, Pool via AP) MARSEILLE, France (CN) — France’s decades-long military presence in the Sahel is officially over. France handed over its last base in Chad Thursday after President Mahamat ...

Many pivotal developments in the course of history did not start in palace halls or parliaments, but rather on battlefields where soldiers and warriors faced deadly opposition and risked their lives ...