The Skagit County Historical Museum’s special exhibit highlights the late Skagitonian World War II veteran Frank Pratt’s time ...

Looking back over 2025 I remember all the books, articles and TV programmes produced to commemorate the ending of World War ...

At an abandoned German airfield that later held prisoners of war, the ground is still filled with traces of the people who ...

Experience the breathtaking escape of Bob Hoover, the daring American pilot who stole a German Focke-Wulf 190 and flew it back to safety. With no maps, flying a foreign aircraft, and risking friendly ...

Cricket played behind the barbed wire in German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II was a huge morale booster for diggers, ...

Les Schrenk and Casey Bukowski already share a special bond as World War II veterans. After all, not many from the Greatest ...

As Australia and England clash in The Ashes cricket series, Australian War Memorial historians have uncovered two diaries ...

A World War Two veteran who fought in Normandy as a teenager before becoming a prisoner of war has died at the age of 100, a ...

Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was ...

Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and ...

In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...