At 7.17 pm on December 7, 1942, His Majesty’s Submarine Tuna surfaced off the coast of Occupied France near the mouth of the River...

The last surviving British member of the Dambusters raid has been presented with an MBE after a campaign for him to be honoured. Sq Ldr...

Yvonne Jeanne de Vibraye Baseden MBE; Legion of Honour; the Resistance Medal and the Croix de Guerre avec Palme, (20 January 1922 – 28...

The day of waiting and discomfort was over. The British Eighth Army – including Australian, New Zealand, South African, Indian, Polish...

Le Chemin de la Liberte (The French Freedom Trail) After the German offensive in May 1940 and the division of France into two parts - an...

In Stalingrad Soviet forces were obstinately refusing to budge from their defended positions on the ever diminishing sliver of land they...

The RMS Queen Mary was used as a troopship throughout World War II and usually crossed the Atlantic without an escort, relying on her...

Escape from Italy On the 03 September 1943, the Italian Government led by Badoglio (who had replaced Mussolini in July), signed an...

Leo Gradwell DSC was a British barrister, a magistrate and a Second World War Royal Navy volunteer, who in July 1942 against orders, led...

As it is my Birthday I though I would remember a VC Winner from today who sacrificed his life for others: David Samuel Anthony Lord VC,...

Dutch civilians and veterans of 1st Airborne Division watch as children place flowers on graves at the Arnhem-Oosterbeek Cemetery, 25...

On the 12th September the German U boat U-156 torpedoed a passenger ship off the coast of Africa. There was nothing remarkable about that...

In early September 1942 Edward Young was the First Officer on HMS Saracen as she made her way from Britain via Gibraltar to Malta....

Declaration of war Germany invaded Poland in the early morning of 1 September 1939. The British Cabinet met late that morning and issued...

High in the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea, in treacherous conditions of ankle deep mud the battle for the Kokoda Track again...

In Burma the Monsoon Season had brought a pause in hostilities and the British forces regrouped in India. It comprised elements from...

The mission for Lieutenant Colonel Lord Lovat and No. 4 Commando (including 50 United States Army Rangers) was to conduct two landings 6...

Operation Pedestal was a British operation to carry supplies to the island of Malta in August 1942, during the Second World War. Malta...

Formed at Dorchester, West Dorset, in August 1943 mainly from men of 9th RM Bn; 46 Commando RM had a brief but important role in the...

The Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s