Doris Miller earned the Navy Cross for his actions during the Japanese attack on the US base at Pearl Harbor on 7…
With its warm tones and bustling figures, this month’s image could – at first glance – appear almost to represent a scene…
Like a sort of Second World War smorgasbord, you can take a look and pull tasty morsels out of Hidden Places of…
Historian Christopher Browning labelled members of Reserve Police Battalion 101 ‘ordinary men’. Neither of the SS or the Wehrmacht, they were mostly…
The victims of World War II are remembered in regular commemorations, but many of the fatalities have never been recovered. Now academics…
Most Britons are proud of their country’s role in helping to bring about victory in the Second World War. There is nothing…
When the USAAF’s Eighth Air Force arrived in Britain in mid-1942, it was confident that unescorted formations of B-17 Flying Fortresses could…
The Battle of Midway is the subject of a new blockbuster, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, and…
The Brecon Beacons National Park is an unusual place for a commemoration. But in early November, it played host to a ceremony…
Coming just months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway – in which the outcome of World War II…