All news on the topic: World War 2

Bernard Morgan is celebrating his 100th birthday on Wednesday has vowed to keep the document in his family - the RAF sergeant had landed on Gold Beach in Normandy at 6.30pm on D-Day

Mill of Sterin Bridge in Scotland was the only crossing upstream over the River Muick, used by King Charles and Queen Camila. Locals are disappointed at its demolition

A stranger in the vintage photograph appears to be out of place compared to others ion the beach. He is looking down at his hands and is absorbed by something which he can't take his eyes off

A national poll has found that a huge majority of the public are in favour of women being conscripted should a world war break out. So we thought we'd ask Mirror readers what they think

Harrison Hull fought in the US Army Air Force throughout the second world war as a young man. 79 years after the war ended, Hull is still alive - and receiving hundreds of birthday cards

Professor Anthony Glees, security and intelligence expert at the University of Buckingham, believes the Government should incentivise volunteers to fight for our country

Robert Burns Garrow, known as Bobby, was surrounded by family and friends for his special day as he turned 100 years old. He credited his long life to porridge at breakfast and a "wee dram at night"

A controversial spa complex erected by Covid hero Captain Sir Tom Moore's daughter is due to be torn down following a court battle - with neighbours saying it's made them a 'laughing stock'

Sharks are not always as fierce as they are painted in the movies, but there are many which are considered dangerous - and wouldn't think twice about devouring a human or other prey

Postman Adam Simpson-York buys World War 1 medals on eBay and then tracks the families of the soldiers they belong to via genealogy websites

After Defence Secretary Grant Shapps warned that we are now moving 'from a post-war to a pre-war world', we look at the warning signs that could mean WW3 is near

Dr Martin Stern, who survived concentration camps at Westerbork and Theresienstadt, spoke to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, which remembers the killing of six million Jews

The deranged dictator had secret programmes that developed a range of weapons, spies and other machines in a bid to conquer the world and destroy the allied forces of the UK and US.

Annick Lever was silenced by fear throughout her youth but knew she was different. It wasn't until later in life that she was able to piece together what happened to her maternal family at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Renate Collins was five years old when she fled the Nazis in 1939 and Mirror writer Mizy Judah Clifton met her ahead of this year's Holocaust Memorial Day to talk about her experience 85 years ago

Prof Anthony Glees, security and intelligence expert at the University of Buckingham, told the Mirror General Sir Patrick Sanders is 'absolutely right' in his warning about conscription

The next UK government will face one of the toughest fiscal challenges since the 1950s, with sluggish economic growth and high national debt, according to a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies

When Russell “Rusty” Waughman died last month at 100 years old, he was one of the last pilots of Bomber Command, up there with the most dangerous assignments of World War II

Joanna Millan, 81, were among the 300 Jewish orphans flown to the Lake District at the end of the Second World War, and among them was Rob Rinder's grandad Morris Malenicky

Lance Corporal Harold Jones, a World War Two veteran who lives in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, has been doing laps of his back garden 30 times every day since 2020

Air hostess Vesna Vulović was the only person to survive when the JAT Yugoslav Airlines plane she was working on was blown out of the skies by a suspected terrorist bomb in 1972

Morgan Nick was just six years old when she disappeared without a trace from a Little League game in Alma, Arkansas, in 1995, and while a person of interest has been named, nobody knows what happened to the young girl

Austin Butler and Saltburn's Barry Keoghan star in the latest war drama from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks

President Zelensky says a ceasefire may 'crush' Ukraine afterward - and that the country instead needs better weapons and a boost in military production capabilities

Mike Sadler was one of the original SAS rogues who fought Nazis behind enemy lines, outnumbered and outgunned, he once escaped capture from German troops and trekked 100-miles across the desert to safety