Lou Conter, US naval officer who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor – obituary
As the USS Arizona burned, he calmly prevented his shipmates from jumping into the flaming oil on the sea’s surface
As the USS Arizona burned, he calmly prevented his shipmates from jumping into the flaming oil on the sea’s surface
US president’s theory of 2nd Lieut Ambrose J Finnegan’s death contradicted by official war records
Defence readiness should be a whole-of-government exercise, yet we assume the MoD can do it all itself
At 6ft 4in, Bell was thought too tall to be a pilot, so he was trained as an observer and then as a bomb aimer destined for Bomber Command
Brought up on the North-West Frontier of India, during the war she was a motorcycle despatch rider and later worked in Army intelligence
Sandbags and digging have their place, but probably not this time
He helped to sink the battlecruiser Scharnhorst, and in later years was an expert in industrial relations
British veteran Jack Jennings endured brutal forced labour on the line immortalised in 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai
American scientists believe they have discovered what the strange, fast-moving blobs that shaped alien conspiracy theories truly were
‘I never got down. You just got on with it. I never gave up hope. I made up my mind to forget about home’
Telegraph readers respond to the threat of global conflict
Apple TV‘s series tells the story of the US Air Force‘s ‘Bloody Hundredth’ Bomber Group. But how does it compare to the truth?
The author and socialite, 91, remembers debs, doodlebugs and dinner parties
Would the Blitz spirit come to the fore once again? Or would the ‘pre-war generation’ fall apart at the seams?
Judy Simon was a child when she was liberated from a concentration camp in 1945. Last year she finally unearthed the truth about her family
For Francis Charig, a new film centred on Nicholas Winton's Kindertransport is a poignant but timely reminder of his family's history
Actor agreed to play part of unassuming Briton who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis in WW2
Maj Ronald Morris was one of 14 men who took part in a covert operation in 1943
As one in five young people believe that the Holocaust is a myth, we meet the survivors who explain how they’re keeping the message alive
After the battle of Letpanthonbyin, Mullins was astonished to find two large bullet holes in his helmet while another had bounced off
Second World War veteran Colin Bell is glad he could help Britain win – and continues to help charities like the RAF Benevolent Fund
Gilling was one of the first to sign up when the Admiralty extended its ‘yachtsmen scheme’ to Australia; he lost a thumb training in X-Craft
She spent her early years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and did not attend university until she was a single mother of 28