Retired Lieutenant Colonel Richard “Dick” Cole, the last of the 80 Doolittle Tokyo Raiders who carried out the daring US attack on Japan during the Second World War, has died at a military hospital in Texas aged 103.
There’s a picture of Andrew Mackenzie on the table next to his bed in an Edinburgh care home.
A Scottish woman saved many Jews from the Holocaust by helping them to emigrate to the UK, a new book has revealed.
A Scottish woman saved many Jews from the Holocaust by helping them to emigrate to the UK, a new book has revealed.
A Second World War Spitfire pilot has finally been laid to rest 70 years after his plane was shot down in Italy.
The voices of Second World War veterans and their relatives are being recorded to mark the 75th anniversary of some of the conflict’s most momentous battles.
The Royal Air Force has led commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the Great Escape.
A Second World War pilot who was involved in the Great Escape has died aged 101, according to an RAF charity.
They were refugees who flocked to the Moray Firth from Norway and Denmark when their homelands fell under enemy occupation during the Second World War.
I wish I had worked harder at physics, but even I knew the difference between velocity and speed and that combined they were propelling me to a cliff edge known as abject failure.
It was a deliberate act of destruction that transformed a quiet part of Scotland into the world’s biggest naval graveyard.
The ecstatic sailor shown kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of the Second World War has died aged 95.
Growth in life expectancy in Scotland has stalled and health inequalities have widened, according to new reports.
Rosamunde Pilcher, the best-selling author of the family saga The Shell Seekers, has died aged 94.
A volunteer dive team has been given permission to carry out an extensive survey of the wreck of a battleship sunk almost 80 years ago with the loss of more than 800 lives.
Bart van Es has won the Costa Book Of The Year Award for his “incredibly important” account of family bonds and Holocaust trauma, The Cut Out Girl.
Three buoys have been removed from a Belfast city centre square to make way for a new Blitz memorial.
It was a chance encounter in the dying days of the Second World War that led to the capture of one of the highest-ranking and most infamous members of the Nazi regime.
For many, there is no greater symbol of the power of the Christmas spirit than the First World War truce.
Selma Wynberg Engel, one of the few to survive an uprising against the Nazis, died last week at the age of 96.
Police have charged a motorist after knocking over a RAF war memorial in Aberdeenshire.
A stunning vision for multi-billion-pound bridges between Scotland and Northern Ireland has received the backing of some of the UK's top politicians.
A Second World War veteran marked a momentous occasion by blowing out the candles surrounded by loved ones.
A unique tapestry created by north-east women’s institute members in the 1940s has been discovered nearly a decade after it went missing.
A mother and daughter duo have created a hand-crafted tribute to men lost during the first and second world wars.
He was known as the Tartan Pimpernel and helped save the lives of more than 2,000 Allied troops during the Second World War.
How do we remember the Great War? The last Scottish veteran, Alfred Anderson of the 5th Battalion the Black Watch died in 2005. The “last fighting Tommy” Harry Patch died in 2009. Florence Green of the Women’s Royal Air Force died in 2012. We will soon sadly lose the last veterans of the Second World War.
Oscar-winner Helen Hunt has been cast in the BBC’s major Second World War drama World On Fire.
A couple who met in the north-east will have a celebration with a difference this weekend as they both mark their 100th birthdays.
The granddaughter of an Australian prisoner of war has issued a plea to find the Aberdeen family who showed him kindness after his ordeal.
A Highland veteran of the Second World War has been decorated with the highest honour France can bestow.
A World War II museum in the Highlands and a former bowling club in Aberdeen are among the beneficiaries of nearly £2 million of financial support from the Scottish Land Fund.