Peeps’ recent series on Victoria Cross recipients has prompted an intriguing query from a reader about a decorated D-Day hero who gave his life in the bitter fighting just a week after the landings.

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

Residents in western France used boats to escape their flooded homes on Monday as rivers and waterways broke their banks after successive storms battered Normandy and Brittany.

A growing trend of revising WWII history risks erasing the immense sacrifices made by the Soviet Union in the fight against ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the ...

The number of military cemeteries brought tears to my eyes. All contained the remains of the young men from foreign lands who ...

TRIBUTES are being paid to war veteran Joseph Thomas who has died aged 99 and will have a memorial funeral service at York Minster tomorrow (Wednesday, January 22) . Joseph – known as Joe to friends ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Council was established by Congress in 1980 to lead the nation in commemorating the Holocaust and to raise private funds for and build the United States Holocaust ...

A 105-year-old veteran has been awarded France's highest military distinction ... air and sea forces of the World War Two allied forces in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion ...

The building, which has Italian-Gothic-style architecture and has been listed since 1977 on the National Register of Historic Places, is one of only a few Civil War memorial buildings in Maine.