There are calls for recognition for the sailors on the WWII Arctic Convoys who risked their lives to transport crucial supplies and munitions from Scotland to Russia.

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VIDEO: Call to recognise Arctic veterans

SAS veterans from the WWII campaign in the Mediterranean have been recounting their memories of the war.

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VIDEO: SAS WWII veterans on Mediterranean campaign

Computer conservationists have finished restoring a machine known as Tunny which was key to Allied code-cracking efforts in WWII.

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WWII code-breaker will run again

The Japanese yen hits a post-WWII record against the US dollar as stocks slide amid radiation and earnings concerns.

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Yen hits record as Nikkei slides

The WWII veteran helping ex-service people cope on civvy street

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Tail-end Charlie’s tale

The Asian heroine who risked all for Britain in WWII

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Forgotten spy

WWII veteran Major Richard Winters, made famous by the book and TV mini-series Band of Brothers, dies at the age of 92.

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Band of Brothers’ CO Winters dies

France’s state rail company SNCF expresses “profound sorrow” in the US for its role in transporting Jews to Nazi death camps in WWII.

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SNCF ‘sorrow’ over Holocaust role

Archives shed new light on exploits of WWII agent Eileen Nearne.

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Reluctant heroine

The brains of babies still in the womb at the time of severe WWII food shortages may have aged faster than other people’s, researchers say.

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Famine baby brains ‘age faster’

Scottish WWII piper Bill Millin who died in Devon last month is honoured in a service at Sword Beach where he played troops ashore during the D-Day landings.

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Memorial service for D-Day piper

Meeting WWII’s ‘forgotten armies’

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History revisited