Reuters was able to independently verify the location of the photos and video by the nearby shopfront and park equipment, which matched street view imagery of the area and original file metadata. The ...

The program to train World War II British pilots was launched in 1941 under the provisions of the Lend-Lease Act. It is a well-known fact that prior to the United States of America’s official entry ...

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, Northumberland ...

During World War II, British researchers conducted tests on themselves to gauge how submariners’ brains would function at extreme depths Rachel Lance - Author, Chamber Divers: The Untold Story of the ...

On June 8, 1940, just four days after the evacuation of Dunkirk, the United Kingdom's Royal Navy suffered its worst loss of World War II when its HMS Glorious aircraft carrier and two destroyer ...

LONDON (AP) — A World War II-era Spitfire fighter plane crashed near a British air force base in eastern England on Saturday, killing the pilot, the U.K. defense ministry said. The ministry confirmed ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A new initiative honoring World War II British servicemen buried in the U.S. is kicking off in Virginia Beach. The Military Aviation Museum and its volunteers have joined the ...

Although the devices found during construction work were practice bombs, they can be harmful. Officials said there could be more. By Alexandra E. Petri and Jenny Gross Alexandra E. Petri reported from ...

In the first year of World War II, England’s children saved pennies, lent their Government between ten and 15 million pounds. At the war’s beginning there were 23,650 Schools Savings Groups, carried ...

LONDON — British spies during World War II were frustrated by the lack of information-sharing with the FBI and feared Nazi agents could infiltrate Britain through America, newly declassified documents ...