While in conversation with author and journalist Mark Whitaker, author Becky Aikman talked about how the American women pilots who volunteered to ferry warplanes for the British military during World ...

Beatrice Shilling fixed the stall-prone Rolls-Royce Merlin engines with a simple disc to limit fuel flow, fondly known as ...

"Dear Miss Lake," the fourth and final book in the series begun by " Dear Mrs. Bird," suggests that it was time to wrap things up.

In WW2, conscription began for men aged between 20 to 22 in 1939, up to six months before the war actually broke out. The UK ...

A new film dramatises the rescue during WW2 of hundreds of British POWs from the Lisbon Maru, a Japanese cargo liner. The ...

Wartime codebreaker and cryptanalyst, Joan Clarke, was the only woman to work with Alan Turing in the supremely secretive Hut 8 at ...

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, historian Geoff Pugh has tracked down the graves of every person called Pugh who ...

Eighty years after Japan was defeated, a wave of Chinese films about the occupation are fuelling memory and anger.

On August 15, 1945, and in the days leading up to it, tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of the British capital ...

On Aug. 25, 1916, Woodrow Wilson — the president at the time and a Staunton native — established the National Park Service ...

During his involvement in the Army Air Corps, writer Gore Vidal was billeted in Colorado with fellow servicemen. It was here ...

The two men were among four living WWII veterans – each of them centenarians – who gathered for an official service ...