22+ hour, 20+ min ago   (604+ words) "It's really humbling just to be there and think of all those huge decisions being made, but then you've got the reality of the people participating on the front lines losing their lives." The fate of the world hinged on…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (183+ words) Captain James Martin Stagg, the chief meteorological adviser who persuaded US General Eisenhower to change the date of D-Day, spoke to Richard Dimbleby in 1964. The Allied invasion was moved from the 5th to the 6th of June, due to Stagg's advice. The…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (399+ words) In 1944, a young Irishwoman called Maureen Flavin drew up a weather report that helped change the course of World War Two. Maureen was working at a post office on the far west coast of Ireland. Her duties included recording rainfall,…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (295+ words) In 1935, tens of thousands who had followed Mao Zedong on the Long March across China struggled to survive. They were fleeing Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces during the country's civil war. Zhong Ming was one of them. In 2014, a year before…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (290+ words) A man has completed a zipline challenge for charity for his 93rd birthday. Charles Wylie told the BBC he had "great fun" on the zip wire in Brighton, East Sussex. "Now I know what an eagle must feel like when it's…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (469+ words) Tributes have been paid to World War Two veteran Norman Irwin, from Coleraine, who has died at the age of 107. The death of Norman Irwin was announced by his family on Thursday. Norman Irwin, who was born in 1918 and was…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (382+ words) A World War Two veteran who is celebrating his 100th birthday on Thursday says he is feeling well and "I'm putting my name down for another 20 years". Albert Malin served on the gruelling Arctic convoys during the conflict as an able…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (609+ words) Thousands of airmen and women who lost their lives during World War Two are to be honoured. A total of 12,500 names of Coastal Command personnel will be added to the Losses Database at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln…...

2+ week, 8+ hour ago   (491+ words) A World War Two veteran who fought in the Normandy campaign after lying about his age has died aged 101, a charity has said. Born in London in 1925, Donald Turrell was just 17 when he enlisted, having forged a letter from his…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (341+ words) A World War Two veteran who took part in the D-Day landings has died aged 105. Donald Howkins, from Buckingham, served as a gunner in the Middlesex Regiment and helped waterproof vehicles and ammunition for the Normandy invasion before landing at…...