Faced with an order that threatened the lives of sick men, their commander led them in a quintessential Australian response.

Thousands of British colonial troops who died in the Second World War are to be commemorated properly for the first time ...

In 1945, after three long years of war, the fight between the Allied forces and Japan over Burma finally ended. Japan was ...

USA, Bangladesh and many others have shown that the declaration of independence is a day decided not by those leaving the ...

The 'Death Railway' between Thailand and Burma claimed 1.25 lakh lives during World War II, as Japan forced 2,40,000 ...

The Whirlwind was a heavily-armed, single-seat, twin-engine fighter designed for high performance, with great attention paid ...

Between June 15 and July 29, 1945, six Army Air Forces pilots flying experimental Sikorsky helicopters evacuated between 75 ...

On 1943, Subhas Chandra Bose declared the Provisional Government of Free India (Azad Hind), uniting thousands under the ...

TODAY is Thursday, September 26, the 269th day of 2013. There are 96 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1087 - King William II, son of William the Conqueror, is crowned King of ...