Three members of the 1939 English Chess Olympiad team, Hugh Alexander, Stuart Milner-Barry and Harry Golombek, went on to work as codebreakers at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. The team…
Bhagat Ram Talwar, an Indian spy who helped Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose escape British India in 1941, later ran espionage operations for five countries during World War II: Germany, Italy, the Soviet…
Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi did not visit the Yasukuni Shrine on the anniversary of World War II's end, avoiding a site that has long inflamed tensions with China and South Korea. The…
The World War Two memorial in Washington, DC, was vandalised with soapy bubbles and graffiti on Thursday, ndtv.com reports. The US government has vowed to find the perpetrator and prosecute them to…
Hidden Japanese coastal batteries hit USS Colorado 22 times off Tinian on July 24, 1944, killing 43 sailors and wounding 198, according to the US Navy's Naval History and Heritage Command as…
Prolonged drought, heat and scant rainfall have pushed parts of the Danube to record-low levels, exposing at least 20 German military vessels near Prahovo in Serbia. German forces sank the ships in…
