Willi was in fact a disillusioned German soldier named Paul Muhlbach who had somehow become acquainted with Le Brocq and his ...

Ernest “Smokey” Smith crawls through the rain-drenched night, his uniform caked with mud. It is October 21, 1944, and the bad ...

Camouflage in World War 2 was the first time camouflage was used en masse by all sides. Each side had a different approach to ...

Greece paid tribute this weekend to Fort Roupel and the underground forts of the Metaxas Line, on the border of Greece and ...

World War II certainly brought the strands of world history together, with its global reach and its acceleration of the end ...

Army veteran Harry Miller was stationed in Germany when the Nazis surrendered. Upon hearing the news, he recalls that ...

Surveys in recent years have shown that many Germans want to believe that their ancestors had nothing to do with the crimes committed by Nazi Germany. Members of the younger generation, though, now ...

HARLOW, United Kingdom: 100-year-old Dorothea Barron recounted the sense of satisfaction she experienced upon learning that ...

They both fought at the same battle in North Africa, in the same part of the battlefield, and dryly remarked that “that it's a damn good job we missed each other that day”. They have both passed away ...

David Thomas Niel was born on December 16, 1919, a mere year after the First World War ended. He currently resides in the Kingsacre Care Home in Clydebank's Duntocher, and ahead of the 80th ...

As the country marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day, look back at our unique blog to relive the key events and images from ...

For Jack Appel, 101, the Allies' victory in Europe − made official on May 8, 1945 − wasn't just vital because otherwise, as he said, "we'd all be speaking German ... uniform during World War II.