On December 7, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, using bombers, torpedo bombers...

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The Long Range Desert Group were formed in the autumn of 1940, successors to the much smaller Long Range Patrol. They were intended as a...

Berlin had been transformed in many ways by the war. The city already lay in ruins and the threat of further bombing was ever present. As...

I was in the lead Bren-gun carrier. As we advanced everything was so quiet it seemed unnatural. Then all of a sudden artillery opened up....

Carl Jonas was one of the Marines who went in on the first day: Many of the Higgins boats – the assault Landing Craft – were grounded...

The Soldier If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall...

They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end...

At a petrol station in Abu Dhabi today I was asked by the girl behind the counter what my poppy was for, so I told her. I asked where...

Stanley Scislowski was a 20 year old infantryman with the Perth Regiment, 11th Infantry Brigade, 5th Canadian Armoured Division. He was...

On the 28th October 2014, the Royal Marines celebrated their 350th birthday year. From fighting on the decks and in the mastheads at the...

It was just over 3 years ago that I was on the VLCC Island Splendor when we were attacked by pirates off of Somalia, after they ignored...

Aidan McCarthy, a Medical Officer with the RAF, had survived a series of hazardous episodes during the war including the evacuation from...

I have just updated the front page and summary...hope you like it... Breakfast at Babs' 'What could possibly go wrong....?' ​ Based...

Dan Snow History Hit Mike Sadler is one of a handful of surviving original SAS men. Major Sadler, 93, was the navigator for the...

Great interview by Dan Snow with Lord Paddy Ashdown @paddyashdown former Royal Marine, member of the SBS and polititian. ‘Game of Spies’...

INS Viraat former HMS Hermes is retired, she holds the Guinness record for being the oldest serving warship. INS Viraat is a...