THE scene that met Dr Daniel Millar and nurse Cecilia McGinty in the early hours of March 14, 1941, was one of horror and devastation.

The Germans first subjected Stabholz to Warsaw Ghetto. Then the Jewish doctor-in-training endured multiple camps. A numbered ...

This week marks 80 years since the end of WWII in Europe ... when at 2.41am (French time) general Jodl, German Army Chief of Staff, signed his country's unconditional surrender at the little ...

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical ... as secretary of war during World War II. Barbara’s sister Julia, 17 years older, had served as head of the nursing service for the ...

When the liberators reached the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, they encountered around 3,000 prisoners, nurses and doctors ... By the end of World War II, tens of thousands had died ...

nurse, Commando, SOE operative, codebreaker, engineer or firefighter. George Arthur Roberts – a military veteran, activist and the first Black man to join the London Auxiliary Fire Service ...

BBC Two's VE Day plans include VE Day 80: We Were There, featuring personal accounts from the last surviving veterans of WWII, and Dad’s Army at the ... taken from a German general, , model ...

VE Day commemorates the end of fighting in Europe in World War Two on 8 May 1945, after Nazi German forces surrendered to the ...

During WWII, Briard enlisted to work as a first lieutenant Army Nurse in Hawaii. “Oh, I felt it was very important,” Briard said. “They were needed.” Briard started out as a farm girl from ...