It was the summer of 1940, and the vicious Nazis were seemingly closing in on the United Kingdom. The British Army was highly concerned and began looking for the most skilled men in the military, ...

Artillery has long been hailed as the king of battle. Mounted on wheels and tracks, these mighty platforms unleash thunderous fire that can decide the fate of armies. From the grinding slugfests of ...

While uniquely American, SEAL doctrine owes a technical and conceptual debt to Italy’s WWII combat divers, who first combined modern diving equipment with military objectives.

November 1941. Ten German voices hide behind a single door. One of them might be the man Churchill called ""a master of war,"" the general who had turned the British Army into a retreating, ...

GREAT BARDFIELD, England - Archaeologists in rural Essex, England, are excavating a World War II crash site, attempting to locate the remains of a U.S. Army Air Force pilot from Grove City, ...

Over the course of World War II, many women stepped out of societal norms to take on roles that were essential to the Allied victory. Many took to the skies while others worked behind the scenes in ...

Agonising hell. These are the only two words that can describe the horror inflicted on Indian soldiers, leading to thousands of painful deaths, during World War II by the Japanese army when it was ...

A Shropshire Second World War soldier who died from injuries sustained in the evacuation to Dunkirk has been honoured for his service - 80 years later.

AT CHINA’S Victory Day parade on September 3, Xi Jinping delivered a warning — the world stands at a crossroads between peace and war, and to prevent a catastrophic conflict engulfing the world again, ...

The Whipsnade community is set to honour US pilot, who died when his plane crashed in the village 82 years ago.

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Archaeologists are searching the site where a World War Two American plane crashed in 1944 in the hope of finding its pilot's remains. Pilot 2nd Lt Lester Leo Lowry of 487th Fighter Squadron was the ...