The plan was never to actually do it. The last thing Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville wanted that summer of 1940, was to ...

Wednesday is the 80th anniversary of VE Day, marking Germany’s unconditional surrender and the end of WWII in Europe. A new book “Spitfires” tells the little-known contribution American women made to ...

When most military history buffs think of Soviet tanks during World War II, chances are they think of the T-34. This is understandable, since it, along with America’s M4 Sherman, were the two Allied ...

In the last months of World War Two, aircrews from an Essex airfield were responsible for dropping secret agents and supplies ...