World War II

Jane Richards, reading her father's sermon.

Poignant 1945 VE Day sermon discovered in drawer after 80 years

More than a thousand beacons and several hundred "lamp lights of peace" are expected to be lit across the UK to celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day

VE Day 80th Anniversary events taking place across UK

Picture shows Yael (Lotte) Posener on a bench with her husband Ludwig Posener and their young grandson Yotam Ottolenghi; In front of them sit their other grandchildren, Yuval Peres, Tirza Ottolenghi, and Nava Peres and in the back right are their daughter Ruth Ottolenghi (nee Posener), next to her son Yochanan Peres (nee Peter Posener) and his wife Hanna Peres, undated. Grandmother of the celebrity chef hunted Nazi monster Adolf Eichmann. Note: Private photo taken from local media. (Newsflash/NX)

Celebrity chef's grandma was a Nazi hunter who caught Adolf Eichmann

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting earth in 2023.

NASA identifies 'risk corridor' amid chance of asteroid hitting earth

Phyllis Dalton stands backstage during the 62nd Academy Awards ceremony March 26, 1990 in Los Angeles, CA. Dalton received an Oscar for Best Costume Design for "Henry V." Photo: John Barr/Liaison

British Oscar-winning costume designer Phyllis Dalton has died

American figure skater Dick Button practises his jumps in February 1948 in Saint-Moritz during the Winter Olympic Games

Figure skating pioneer and Olympic champion dies aged 95

The UK will have an additional bank holiday in 2025 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Brits to get extra bank holiday in 2025

Joao Alves Pereira, 114. The Brazilian is older than his favourite club, Corinthians

The centenarian superfan who is older than his favourite team

Members of the public fill The Mall before a flypast during the Queen's Birthday Parade, the Trooping the Colour, as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in London in June 2022 (Photo: DANIEL LEAL/POOL/AFP/AFP via Getty Images)

UK to get extra bank holiday in 2025 to mark major historic event

In 2023, Catherine, Princess of Wales chose Catherine Walker as she did in 2022 and opted for Alexander McQueen in 2021

A look back to Kate Middleton Remembrance Sunday outfits

An airport in Japan is closed after a bomb, likely dating back to WW2, has exploded. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

Airport closed after bomb explodes

Kate Winslet takes on the role of renowned WWII photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller in the biopic "Lee," our in UK cinemas from this week.

Explainer Who was Lee Miller, the focus of Kate Winslet’s new biopic, “Lee?”

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
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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

World War II: From the Frontlines | When is the series released?
"World War II: From the Frontlines” looks to give Netflix viewers an immersive new experience regarding the horrors of World War II
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Blackbushe Airport in the 1960s (SWNS)

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

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

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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