In 1945, 19-year-old Princess Elizabeth joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women's branch of the British Army.

Queen Elizabeth II went nearly 10 years without knowing that royal household ... Blunt confessed to the British royals in 1964 that he was a senior officer for the Russians during World War II. 7.

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During World War II, Earl L. McCorkle from Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, was fighting the Germans while trying to cross the Rhine River. But it was during the Battle at Remagen that he lost his helmet.

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A treasure trove of wartime codebreaker Alan Turing’s scientific papers has sold for more than three times their expected ...

The photographs, mostly captured by Chronicle photographers, encapsulated the evolving landscape of weddings during the period, with a notable ...