But on 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ...

CHIVALROUS veteran Jack Mortimer tucked the Queen into her blanket in the royal box outside Buckingham Palace. And the 101-year-old then gave Camilla a kiss on the hand as she left the VIP stand ...

THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the ...

D-Day and the liberation of Europe was a momentous task consuming the energies of millions. The tens of thousands of combat ...

Veterans at centre of celebrations, as Royal Family hopes 'nothing will detract' from them just days after Prince Harry's ...

Shot down over occupied France 80 years ago, Alf Herring was taken prisoner almost immediately. He has never spoken of his ...

Stepping free from the darkness of bombardment in war, Les Sunter can still hear the cry of his comrades’ victory call. The ...

In an appalling irony, the gallery will close just five days before the 81st anniversary of the Normandy Invasion on June 6 in which Lieutenant Ashcroft stormed Sword Beach with The South ...

Veteran Jack Mortimer meets a local resident as he returns to Sword Beach in Normandy, France, where he landed on D-Day. Picture: Alamy Defence Secretary John Healey said: "Eighty years after VE Day, ...

"I cannot imagine a son attacking his father," McCoy said. "I'm shocked about it, very shocked and sad. It's sad, so sad." ...