The remarkable story of an RAF Pocklington navigator shot down over Germany; becoming a POW, escaping then recaptured twice, and finally surviving the 1945 ‘Death March’; was told poignantly ...

A Distinguished Flying Medal group awarded to a flight engineer in the Royal Air Force’s Pathfinder Force during the Second World War is to be sold at auction in Shrewsbury later this year.

A moving ceremony to mark the unveiling of a new war memorial in France was attended by a representative of Pocklington School in East Yorkshire. The event took place in Boussières-sur-Sambre, in ...

A full-fledged war with Pakistan now won’t be like Kargil, fought by our brave soldiers in faraway glaciers. It will come to our cities in air sirens, blackouts and bunkers. Is this what they want?

Cosford's RAF Museum is inviting families to step back in time during its 'World War Two Week' this May half-term. Running between May 24 and June 1, the RAF Midlands Museum in Cosford is offering ...

A few words marking a momentous moment on May 8, 1945 - VE Day. Squadron Leader Peter Gardner Bell, known to his RAF colleagues as ‘Dinga’, was based out in India and Burma during WW2.

The granddaughter of a man who served in World War Two says his diaries have given her a valuable insight into what was asked of young people during that time. Della Judd, who lives in Milton ...

Charles H. Walker’s legacy from a Union Civil War brigade in Wisconsin remains alive with his diary contents preserved by his descendants. Troy Walker, a La Crosse man who grew up in Rio and ...

Vietnam vet returns lost diary to fallen soldier's family 07:36. BERGENFIELD, N.J. -- A local Vietnam veteran recently found himself back in Vietnam to return something he found on the battlefield ...

Former RAF base near Cambridgeshire that played vital role in WW2 and Cold War. The site has now been redeveloped into a housing estate. cambridgenews. Bookmark.

Books ‘War Diary’ by Ingeborg Bachmann | Excerpt 'War Diary' depicts the last phase of World War II and the early part of the ensuing British occupation of Austria.