We explore the story of the British X-Type parachute - the essential piece of equipment that carried airborne troops into some of the most critical operations of the Second World War. From North ...

Step into Hepburn's homes—from the apartment she shared with her mom in London to the Roman villa where she honeymooned ...

The Leger Holidays new Battlefield Tours collection includes two brand new ‘Mini-Cruise & Tour’ Europe options.

Tributes have been paid to World War 2 or WW2 warriors Richard Aldred and John King after their deaths at 101. Richard landed on Omaha Beach in a Cromwell Tank on D-Day in 1944, serving with the Royal ...

Thank you for signing up! Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Lancaster Guardian, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Richard Brock said: “I was astonished when ...

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

Remote communities in the Northern Territory are paying nearly $4 per litre for diesel and are concerned it will rise further because of the Middle East war. Residents say they feel ripped off, ...

As Allied forces became surrounded during Operation Market Garden, British paratroopers held Arnhem Bridge far longer than expected. Cut off, outgunned, and nearly out of supplies, their final radio ...

Plaques commemorating African American soldiers fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe have been removed from a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands. Approximately 1 million African American ...

In the wake of World War 2, the United States emerged as an industrial powerhouse after supplying its own military and its allies with a wide array of weapons and equipment Boeing played an integral ...

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds. The IJN Teruzuki fought fiercely in the first and second naval battles of ...