This week marks the 80th anniversary of the famed Battle of Iwo Jima. Some of the men who braved those shores are in town to mark this key turning point in World War II. One by one, with canes ...

1916 The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodies encounters of WW1. Find out about the role played by Scottish soldiers. World War One: the war at sea During World War One, the sea became a ...

When most people think of World War One, they think of trenches and machine guns. However, there was another side to the conflict – the war at sea. In 1916, the Battle of Jutland saw the war’s ...

The expert view: ‘There's lots of real scenarios in this: the French sentenced a huge number of men to death during the First World War ... one boasts a German (and Austrian) cast. The battle ...

He carefully places them in a ceramic rice bowl and takes a moment to imagine people dying 80 years ago as they hid in this cave during one of the fiercest battles of World War II. His hope is ...

Takamatsu Gushiken, a "gamafuya," an Okinawa dialect meaning a person who digs in a cave, searches in a cave for the remains of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa towards the end of the ...

Mildred 'Billie' March receives a Gold Star Pin for her father's WWII service. Her father, Joseph Schuster, was a U.S. Army ...

80 years ago, American and Japanese troops were locked in one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the Pacific theatre in World War II: the Battle of Iwo Jima. The small island between the ...

Her father lived through the battle as a combat correspondent. Feb. 23, 2025 Iwo Jima has always been beautiful, a volcanic chunk of rock surrounded by cobalt sea. But a World War II battle 80 ...

The Battle for Bakhmut was one of the bloodiest battles since the end of the Second World War. Around 30,000 Ukrainian troops were forced to face 80,000 Russian troops, largely made up of ...