D Day, traitors and evacuees
On 9 August 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan
The Chindits, an unconventional special force was formed during World War Two
Thomas Keneally stumbled across the story of Oskar Schindler while buying a briefcase
In April 1944, a German fleet sank two allied ships. Around 749 US servicemen died.
Adolf Hitler's secretary recalls his last days in 1945
The scenes of celebration in London on VE Day 1945
How an Irish priest saved thousands of allied prisoners of war and Jews in Rome in WW2
Polish aid worker Irena Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto in WW2
In WW2, a Japanese American troop was one of the most decorated army units in US history
The Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War Two
Maureen Flavin鈥檚 weather report forecast a storm and changed the course of WW2 history
Charles Norman Shay was honoured for saving men from drowning on Omaha Beach on D-Day
Hundreds of thousands of Asian women were forced into sex slavery in the 1930s and 1940s
The national hero was branded a traitor for collaborating with Japan during World War Two
In 1940 a rescue operation helped Allied servicemen escape from Nazi-occupied France
Vesuvius is famous for burying Pompeii but it last erupted in 1944, during World War II.
Mildred Gillars became the first woman in American history to be convicted of treason.
In 1939, Vidkun Quisling asked Hitler to invade Norway.
The signing of the Japanese surrender documents at the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1945.
In 1945 the war correspondent Lee Miller was photographed in Adolf Hitler's bath
The thousands of children moved out of UK cities away from the risk of German bombs
In World War Two, tens of thousands of children left Paris to escape the threat of bombs
Thousands of German children during World War Two were sent to camps in the countryside
Eighty years ago a daring raid destroyed dams in Germany's Ruhr Valley
