Jazz Records Produced for the Armed Forces in World War II Provide a Unique Snapshot of a Nearly Lost Time. This was a period when almost all of the key styles of jazz were flourishing and vibrantly ...

Queen Elizabeth was the first female member of the royal family to serve in the armed forces. She did technical repair work for the Auxiliary Transport Service during WWII. She is pictured in 1944.

How Irish and British forces worked together during World War II Updated / Wednesday, 10 May 2023 16:53 Air Corps airgunners at Baldonnel Aerodrome in March 1941 with a Gloster Gladiator in the ...

At the start of the war, German U-boats began to destroy merchant ships in the Atlantic and the British Government needed to ...

Designating January as “War Records Month”, the Jewish W Ifare Board reported that incomplete data already collected indicates that some 600,000 Jewish men and women served in the armed forces.

GOVERNMENT has approved the decision to send up to 30 Irish soldiers to help train Ukrainian forces. The Government today confirmed that the Defence Forces will engage with the newly established Eu… ...

A Lebanese orphanage supported by the Irish Defence Forces has been severely damaged in an Israeli air strike. The orphanage, in the town of Tibnine, was empty at the time as its 40 children had ...

January 21, 2025 at 6:17pm GMT. The Government’s Armed Forces commissioner is expected to be in place in 2026, a defence minister told the Commons, as MPs voted in support of establishing the role.

A ship that US and Philippine forces planned to sink beat them to it. A former US World War II-era warship, which survived two of the Pacific War’s most important battles, was supposed to go ...

UK Over 10,000 in armed forces ‘not medically deployable’, Ministry of Defence says Deployable is defined as personnel who are able to deploy on operations.

Queen Elizabeth II was the only modern head of state to have served in World War II. ... but there has only been one woman from the British royal family to ever serve in the Armed Forces, ...

Irish troops will provide weapons training to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, it emerged yesterday. Personnel has already been helping out with mine clearance, engineering, and combat medicine since ...