In 1944 though, it was time to use it for attack. Britain and its Second World War allies had been planning the biggest, most audacious air and seaborne invasion in history: D-Day. Since 1940 most ...

In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter ...

The Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on June 28, 1919, was intended to bring peace following World War I — but instead ...

Newport's Royal British Legion branch is getting ready to mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe.

American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced ... of equipment in any theatre of the world war.” Two years earlier, America’s military preparedness ...