World War II

Second World War-era Avro Lancaster Bomber flies over lake.

Watch: Second World War-era Avro Lancaster Bomber flies over lake

Burglars walked out with war medals as 101-year-old widow watched on in horror

101-year-old watched on as burglars stole late husband's war medals

Gladys Lewis, a World War II veteran who served at the UK's codebreaking headquarters, has died at the age of 101. Picture: BBC Breakfast Show

WWII veteran dies aged 101

Two pilots have been killed after a World War II-era plane crashed during a Father's Day event in California. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

Two dead after plane crashes

RAF veteran Bernard Morgan,100, from Crewe, visits the war graves ahead of the Royal British Legion Service to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, at Bayeux cemetery (Photo: Aaron Chown - Pool/Getty Images)

'We will remember them' ... famous D-Day poem in full

David Teacher, who served as a mechanic in the RAF during D-Day, has died at the age of 100. (Credit: Peter Byrne/PA Wire)

D-Day veteran dies at 100 - days before commemoration

Maps and planning documents detailing top-secret plans were donated to House on the Hill museum.

Watch: Top secret D-Day documents from Normandy found in old car boot

Inside the secret underground bunker

Watch: Inside top secret underground WWII bunker hidden in plain sight

111-year-old John Alfred Tinniswood from Merseyside is now the world’s oldest living man. Image: Guinness World Records

Fish & chip loving 111-year-old from Merseyside is world's oldest man

A contractor, who at first thought he had discovered human remains, has found a Second World War plane propeller wrapped in potato sacks in a Scottish peat bog. (Photo: National Trust for Scotland)

WW2 propeller found in potato sacks

Video grab of a controlled explosion in New Brighton in a park known as The Dips, Merseyside. March 12 2024. A bomb has been set off in a controlled explosion in the Wirral, Merseyside. The explosion, which took place in New Brighton in a park known as The Dips, took place just after 2pm today (March 12). Paul Boyd, 60, whose flat overlooks the area, managed to film the explosion from his home.

Second World War bomb blown up in park

A suspected WWII explosive device has been found in Plymouth

Street evacuated as bomb found

Masters of the Air follows American 'Flying Fortress' bomber crews in WW2

Explainer Masters of the Air: is Austin Butler’s new series fictionalized?

The Dome, Doncaster Leisure Park, Doncaster. Listed at Grade II in 2023

England's first 'car wash' and other buildings listed in 2023

The Roman Cavalry Swords found near Cirencester (SWNS)

Lost treasure: rare and intriguing finds unearthed in 2023

Netflix's new series, "World War II: From the Frontlines," looks to give viewers a brand new look at the horrors that took place during the second World War (Credit: Netflix)

World War II: From the Frontlines | When is the series released?

Blackbushe Airport in the 1960s (SWNS)

WWII airbase saved after battle to protect 600-year-old common land

The World War II airbase - Blackbushe Airport - was once earmarked to be London's second airport after Heathrow

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The Tynemouth Watchtower, Percy Gardens, Tynemouth (Right Move / Hive Estates / SWNS)

World War II watchtower converted into 7-storey home is up for sale

Eye-catching trio of 30ft-wide poppies are painted onto grass pyramids alongside the M8 motorway in West Lothian (SWNS)

Motorway is adorned with 30ft-wide poppies painted onto grass nearby

A rare Mickey Mouse gas mask case designed to make children less scared of respirators during WW2 has been discovered (SWNS)

Rare Mickey Mouse WWII gas mask case unearthed during house clearance

Austin Butler as Major Gale Cleven in 'Masters of Air' (Credit: AppleTV)

First images featuring Austin Butler emerged for ‘Masters of Air’

The destroyer HMS Havant is one of the wrecks to be surveyed. (Copyright: IWM FL 10170) Inset shows evacuated British soldiers on board a destroyer are landed at Dover and wait to disembark (Copyright: IWM H 1628)

Plan to find shipwrecks used to evacuate troops from Dunkirk in WWII

World War 2 bunker and staple of Winston Churchill’s ‘chain home’ radar given stunning holiday-home makeover

World War II bunker transformed into coastal holiday home

The World War II vintage Tiger Moth plane takes to the sky over Northumberland. (PA)

'I'm a lucky man' - flying over UK castles in a World War II biplane

Cowes Week 2023

What is Cowes Week, as fleets of yachts take to the Isle of Wight seas

Composite of Windrush-related items including photographs and statue (Kim Mogg / NationalWorld)

Windrush is a reminder of how little we know about British history Suswati Basu

Members of the ground crew work on one of two surviving airworthy Avro Lancaster bombers ahead of an event to mark the 75th anniversary of the Dambusters raids at RAF Coningsby in 2018 (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Flypast honours Dambuster raids at 28 Lincolnshire sites

A screen shows Russian President Vladimir Putin giving a speech as servicemen line up on Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 9, 2022

Explainer Victory Day in Russia comes at a perilous moment for Putin

Russia’s most important holiday has taken on added significance following Putin’s brutal and bloody invasion of Ukraine

Nick Mitchell

As the world reflects on Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, we speak to one charity boss about the impact of celebrity culture on the views of the public (Credit: Kim Mogg/NationalWorld)

‘Anti-semitism didn’t start or end with the Holocaust’

German, French, and British soldiers held a series of unofficial truces during Christmas 1914

1914 Christmas truce: what happened on Christmas Day during WWI

Jimmy Stewart stars in It's A Wonderful Life as George Bailey (Pic:Jimmy Stewart/Republic Pictures)

Copyright error ensured It's a Wonderful Life became Christmas classic

In this satellite image taken by Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite, and released by the agency, shows an undersea volcano eruption at the Pacific nation of Tonga Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. An undersea volcano erupted in spectacular fashion near the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday, sending large waves crashing across the shore and people rushing to higher ground. (Japan Meteorology Agency via AP)

Tonga volcano eruption the largest explosion ever recorded

8th May 1945: A victory tea party, like the one pictured, took place across the UK to celebrate VE Day.

VE Day: what happened on historic day during World War Two

VE Day. The crowds assemble. This morning 's scenes of the Great Gathering at Buckingham Palace, General views of the crowds at the Palace, 8th May 1945.

Documentary to show previously unseen footage of VE Day celebrations

Unknown British soldier laid to rest in Italy 75 years after he died

(Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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