EXCLUSIVE: Hitler wanted the seaside town to be his 'Pleasure Palace' so being ignored by the Luftwaffe meant 840,000 RAF ...

World War II's successful Operation Overlord took place on the coast of France. Although there were heavy Allied casualties, this invasion turned the tide in the war and helped lead to the fall of ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announces the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum in London, July 9, 2025. BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES In a forgotten precedent from January 1963, ...

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The U.S. Navy owns many historic artefacts. One is America’s Ship of State, USS Constitution, still in commission, and visited by hundreds of thousands each year in Boston. Another is a relatively ...

When idealists and realists describe the achievement of the post-WWII international order, they are usually talking about different things. For those operating from the idealist conceptual framework, ...

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Along with the rest of the country at 12pm on Thursday, May 8, Teesside International Airport fell silent to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day. The special day of commemoration and remembrance began ...

THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the viewpoint in Port-en-Bessin, the site of a daring raid following D-Day. It’s the ...

He landed at Arromanches on August 12 1944. Within a few days he was taken to hospital with a recurrence of malaria and it was October before he was able to rejoin his unit, part of an anti-aircraft ...

Two military jets collided midair during a stunt rehearsal in France on Tuesday before crashing to the ground and exploding in a massive fireball, dramatic video shows. The collision caused three ...