WarsofTheWorld. 3 Most Feared & Deadliest WWII British Soldiers. Posted: January 31, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025. In the years leading up to the start of the Second World War, Britain’s ...

While the answers are too tangled to cover here, let's take a look at one of the most famous of all British awards: the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire or O.B.E.

Lieutenant-Colonel 'Mad Mitch' Mitchell (pictured centre), a Second World War veteran and hero of campaigns in Korea, Borneo and Cyprus, was called back in to action in July 1967.

Case Western Reserve University professor John Broich taught a class about the British Empire and the Indian Army's efforts during World War II. He argued that the Indian Army's role has been ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For most Americans, D-Day remains the most famous battle of World War II. It was not the end of the war against Nazism. At most, it was the beginning of the ...

In 2015, she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) and, in 2021, she was awarded the Legion d'Honneur, France's highest distinction, in recognition of her wartime service ...

When the war ended in 1945, Willys produced the first civilian Jeep model, the CJ-2A, advertising it to famers and construction workers. Like the Quad, it had a flat hood and no doors, but boasted ...

In France's military cemeteries, soldiers of the British Empire and the guardians of their memory By Marie-Béatrice Baudet (Arras (Pas-de-Calais), Thiepval (Somme), special correspondent ...

Items belonging to an Englishman credited with cracking encrypted Nazi communications during World War II, and who later earned accolades as one of the founding fathers of computer science, were ...

The Scottish actor became an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 2009, collecting the honor from Princess Anne during an investiture ceremony. By.

Closer to home, the British Army waged its longest military campaign to date: Operation Banner, an effort to establish order during the Troubles, a bloody sectarian conflict that engulfed much of ...

One of the United Kingdom's oldest surviving World War II code-breakers has passed away at the age of 101, ... In 2015, she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) and, ...