The daring raid on the docks at St Nazaire by HMS Campbeltown and the Royal Marines in March 1942, which rendered the drydock in the French port unusable for the remainder of the war, is to be ...

This year’s Model Train Day at the Moore Museum pays homage to the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

Operation Barbarossa transformed Nazi Germany’s war from a one-front struggle, against a weakened Britain and a still-neutral United States, into a two-front conflict. The Eastern Front absorbed as ...

Two Royal Navy veterans of World War Two have celebrated their 101st birthdays at the HMS Excellent naval base in Portsmouth.

Viral X posts compare wars, Kumbh stampede, Ahmedabad crash. Is history repeating? As 2025 is shaped with a string of ...

Ukraine may not have “the cards,” as President Trump put it, but it does have drones. They were used to great effect over the weekend in an audacious attack within ...

The flaw in the Tomazuru was the installation of excessively heavy armaments on the relatively light vessel, which ultimately ...

Had the Aquila been completed, it could have bolstered Italy’s Mediterranean operations by providing fleet air defense and ...

Outnumbered at Calabria, HMS Warspite miraculously crippled the Italian flagship Giulio Cesare from over 15 miles, cementing ...

World War Two’s Rome escape line. Up next. The woman born in a prisoner of war camp. Save Save. Share. June 9, 2025. 11 minutes. ... the Italian capital Rome was occupied by German soldiers.

These battleships were among the finest ever engineered—and are rightly sources of great national pride from an otherwise bleak era in French history.

The Normandy landings on D-Day -- June 6, 1944 -- began the end to World War II. The weather forecast was grim over the English Channel. American General Dwight Eisenhower was in his makeshift office ...