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Edna Twivey from Strathaven cared for injured soldiers during the Second World War.

The wreck of a Japanese transport ship that sank in 1942 with more than 1,000 Allied prisoners-of-war on board has been discovered near the Philippines.

These amphibious war machines were built by women during WWII and used to transport troops and supplies. But these days they are more like to be found ferrying tourists around holiday hotspots.

Tasmania might have seemed a long way from the threat of invasion in WWII, but all that changed in 1942. A Japanese plane flew over Hobart and air raid shelters and trenches were hastily constructed.

Stashes of porn magazines and other relics dating back decades provide an eerie glimpse into the former habitants of this abandoned home in West Sussex

Two paintings and a sculpture from the 15th century, looted by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945 from German Jews, were returned to the heirs of the original owners on Tuesday.

Sneed exclusive: Remains of Lt. Roy Coulson Harms, who was killed over a bombing raid in Romania in 1943, are returning to family in Grafton, Wis.

In a recent episode of BBC series The Repair Shop, a guest brought in a pair of boots worn by his late father to be repaired.

Black Sheep Squadron's final-ever episode starred Peter Frampton as a military intelligence operative stationed on a remote Pacific island

Alongside the horrors of the war in Ukraine, many in the west have been confused by the insistence from Russian president Vladimir Putin that he is trying to free the country from “Nazi control”, accusing his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, and his supporters of crimes against the people of Ukraine.

Who made this curious claim? As MIKE SCANLON writes, if you were in the Hunter in the 1970s you might recall the extraordinary story.