Hero veteran John Eskdale, 100, who saw action across the world and survived being sunk by a German torpedo, told young Brits ...

In the United Kingdom, the army enjoys the prestige acquired during the two world wars, but it is concerned about the  threat ...

Royal Navy veteran and Poole Maritime Trust trustee, Michael ‘Jack’ Hawkins BEM, said: "Poole and the people of Poole played a significant role in the evacuation of France beginning on 26 May 1940 and ...

On his first tour of Asia last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told service members on the Pacific territory of ...

Army headquarters was on the other side of the island, as was the Navy base at Pearl Harbor ... and its two bites of French Indochina, in 1940 and 1941, had been answered by Western economic ...

Driven by poverty, around 485 people signed up as indentured labourers in the phosphate mine on the French Polynesian island ... the loading and unloading of ships against pickets.

After the French gave Southampton a shock in 1338 with ... He was a busy guy, getting money from Henry VIII to supply food for the navy and helping protect the town. He even had a hand in the ships, ...

Since 1940 most of Western ... and reports from the French Resistance had provided minute detail of the terrain and German defences. Meanwhile, covert Royal Navy teams in mini submarines had ...

They robbed European ships ... In 1940, the Third Republic fell and the Vichy regime was established on a large part of its territory. Its representatives controlled the island for two more years.