With his wife and infant sons, he took refuge in unlikely places, including an opera house, an abandoned car and a subway station converted to a bunker.

Duncan McInnes was on board HMS Saladin which rescued hundreds of troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in May 1940. The ...

The Princess Royal has made a visit to Londonderry to attend a commemoration marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the ...

Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.

The milestone was witnessed by the Metro yesterday as we became the first media outlet to go behind the scenes on the ...

On June 7, 1944, amid the hedgerows and swamps of Normandy, a fierce clash unfolded between the American 101st Airborne and ...

Troops of the Third Reich fought all over Europe, North Africa, the Atlantic Ocean and the Middle East during the Second World War. They earned a formidable reputation as being professional and ...

After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space ...

Maj. Gen. Raymond Shields, the adjutant general of New York, welcomed a French diplomat to mark the 80th anniversary of ...

More than 66,000 Allied merchant seamen, sailors and airmen died, with 175 Allied warships and 5,000 merchant ships destroyed ...