Nearly 80 years after his death, a federal agency has identified a pilot who was killed in World War II as a man from ... buried in a cemetery in Toulon. A second report noted a B-24 crashed ...

His navigator, Larry Slattery from Thurles in Co Tipperary, became the longest-serving POW from either the UK or Ireland of the war. The co-pilot ... national heroes' fought for Mexico against ...

Mark Curtis shares the life advice from someone who is truly able to say they've seen it all as a 100-year-old veteran.

In the final push to defeat Nazi Germany during World War II, Edward Gorski Jr. was trying ... As Edward Gorski fought overseas, his girlfriend, Evelyn, worked long hours at a Chicago parachute ...

Some historians have seen the Second World War as the period when Britishness was at its height. This is true but it was not ...

In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second ... Veterans who fought and lived through World War II and the Battle ...

which fought in the Second World War. The battalion was raised in 1939 and consisted entirely of volunteers. Recruiting officers worked closely with tribal authorities but initially most of the ...

A Royal Navy veteran who fought in Burma during the Second World War has been surprised for his 100th birthday by representatives of the King and the military. Captain Walter Godsal now lives at ...