France also draws on its colonies in Africa, including the famous Zouaves – with their bright red and blue uniforms ... of World War One is the U-Boat. These German submarines patrol Atlantic ...

Wilkinson proposed a scheme of disruptive camouflage using ‘masses of strongly contrasting colour’, which became known as ...

Excuse me, but there’s something wrong here,’ she said. ‘I’m standing and you’re sitting.’ When the men looked up, my mother ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

Many U.S. troops shot surrendering Japanese. After the war, hundreds of German prisoners were blown ... members of regular armies and don’t wear uniforms. In their enemy’s eyes, they may ...

Some people are happiest when lost in a country's nature, while others feel more at home in a city. A town's bright attractions and sense of history have a powerful allure. The greatest cities often ...

Submarine warfare played a pivotal role in the Battle of the Atlantic as German U-boats targeted merchant ships and troop carriers from the US and other Allied nations. The underwater predators ...

By 1914 the submarine was not a new weapon, having first been used 150 years earlier. By the start of WW1 all the major ...

Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during ...

The U-boat was not some near-mythical creature as it was almost portrayed by the Allied media, nor even was it a drone built to attack without consciousness. It was a weapon platform manned by people ...

Work is set to begin on a new interactive museum that is intended to better showcase a rare German submarine from ... for the new Battle of the Atlantic U-Boat museum, which is expected to open ...

Demolition work will start on Monday to make way for the new Battle of the Atlantic U-Boat museum, which is expected to open in Birkenhead in 2026. The new visitor attraction, overseen by the Big ...