Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

AN ultra-rare Mercedes, known as the "first sports car after WW2" is heading to auction as a highly sought-after classic. The ground-breaking sports car emerged after World War II, redefining ...

"After the war it looked like they just buried all the ordnance in one of the pits." Mark Mather All the debris found has to be carefully examined and the objects identified It is anticipated work ...

According to the Allies, one of the most critical aspects of winning World War II was establishing air superiority ... the “Liberator” name upon it after its crucial involvement in the Battle ...

After a few months, the need arose for a place of worship. Mr Chiocchetti proposed that a chapel should be built. He went on to design and paint it. When officers realised that Mr Chiocchetti was ...

A WORLD War Two warship mystery has finally been solved after the wreck snagged on a fisherman's net. The Vital de Oliveira had disappeared for 81 years after it was torpedoed by the Nazis ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the ... built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

This war boat had been the only Brazilian Navy vessel lost to the enemy in World War Two when it sank in 1944. The ship was hit just before midnight on July 19 and took just three minutes to ...

One of the most inspiring anti-Nazi German heroes of World War 2 was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor who vocally condemned Adolf Hitler’s euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of ...

In 1945, the victorious Allied powers gathered in San Francisco to draft a charter for the United Nations, the foundation of a new global order that would make another world war impossible. The ...

A photographer who experts in the field said "inspired a generation" has been remembered after his death for his first efforts in the city of his birth. Born in Coventry in 1936, much of John ...