Many of history’s greatest armoured fighting vehicles emerged during the Second World War. These vehicles have not only come to symbolise the struggle of their respective armies in that titanic clash ...

Ukraine's defense ministry numbers on the losses come amid speculation on social media about the possible appearance in the war of a Soviet-made T-34 tank which was used during World War II.

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 ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, 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 ...

Even though Ford stopped production of the M4A3 Sherman in 1943, it continued creating M4 engines for other tanks until the end of World War II. Ford also produced the M10 Tank Destroyer as part ...

During World War II, some armies—the British Army, in particular—bolted metal spans to the top of tank chassis and used the resulting “funnies” to rapidly erect bridges across vehicle ...

Forbes observer David Axe writes that during World War II, some armies—the British Army, in particular—bolted metal spans to the top of tank chassis and used the resulting “funnies” to rapidly erect ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, the Netherlands' largest war archive is going public. No longer classified, it contains the names of hundreds of thousands of people who were ...

Evidence of the global scale of World War II can be found in even the most remote locations, such as this abandoned Japanese tank on the island of Kosrae in Micronesia. During the war, Kosrae and ...

A new species of predatory dinosaur that lived in North Africa 95 million years ago has been identified—some 80 years after the only specimen was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid.

The government has ordered offshore energy firms to avoid "noisy" detonations when disposing of unexploded bombs on the seabed, in a bid to protect vulnerable marine life. There are still more ...