Leonard Cheshire was one of the youngest commanding officers 617 Squadron ever had and one of the most decorated pilots of the conflict. The experiences he had during the war changed his life - and quite literally has transformed the lives of thousands of disabled people across the world.

Thousands of World War Two veterans who took part in what Winston Churchill described as "the worst journey in the world" have been told they cannot c...

The difficult task of locating and excavating dozens of British Spitfires that were buried in the Burmese jungle during the Second World War is to get...

This week, the Bomber Command Memorial at Green Park was voted London's most popular tourist attraction according to Trip Advisor. This is a really poignant moment for everyone who supported the five-year project to erect a Memorial to the 55,573 men who lost their lives serving in Bomber Command.

Veterans of the Battle of El Alamein gathered on Saturday for a special service to mark its 70th anniversary. The evensong at Westminster Abbey in ...

Celebrating the mass bombing of German cities during the Second World War would be obscene but not recognising and remembering the 55,573 aircrew killed out of a total of 125,000 that flew would be a betrayal of people who were asked to take great risks on our behalf.

The Queen opened a £7m memorial to the members of Bomber Command who served and died during the Second World War on Thursday. The Bomber Command M...

Having studied English from primary school through to university, I noticed one assignment recur time and again. From GCSE to A Level, kindergarten to BA, I was repeatedly asked to write about the person I admire most. The only person I possibly could choose given the nature of the assignment. A survivor in every sense of the word. My grandfather. Zigi.

Bomb disposal experts have removed the remnants of a German war-time V2 rocket which was found submerged in mudflats off the English coast, it emerged...

A maths teacher accused of harassing his German neighbours by playing wartime classics and performing Nazi salutes claims he is the victim of harassme...

Nazi surgical tools formerly owned by an SS Major and possibly used in a concentration camp during the Holocaust are being put up for auction. A wo...

The actor Sir David Jason has hit out at Britain's involvement with the EU and claimed "the Germans want to run Europe". The star of Only Fools and...

It was immortalised by the film The Great Escape - now a group of men have revealed the miracles behind the Stalag Luft breakout by recreating the fam...

Fifa has banned the England football team from wearing poppies in honour of Remembrance Day during their friendly against Spain, saying no team is all...

Secret records from the earliest days of the Special Air Service (SAS) carrying out daring attacks behind Nazi lines in north Africa and France have b...