A service will be held at Dewsbury Minster this weekend to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day) and ...

Blackpool Tower will be among hundreds of landmarks across the country lit up to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory over ...

VJ Day is commemorated on 15 August each year, and marks the date in 1945 when Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces, ending ...

VJ Day war veterans were today being honoured at a memorial event attended by the King at The National Memorial Arboretum in ...

Thousands of love letters exchanged by a couple separated during World War Two have been published to mark the 80th ...

A 99-year-old Second World War veteran has said ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) that there are “not many of us left”. Dougie Shelley, who joined the Royal Navy aged 17 ...

John Eskdale was onboard HMS Charybdis, which sank in the English Channel in 1943, after being hit by German torpedoes. He grew tearful as he recalled those hanging on to the ship drowning, which he ...

A 100-year-old Second World War veteran from Cheshire who witnessed the official ceremony marking Japan's surrender has ...