World War 2

These WA community members say naming a new federal seat after a World War II nurse is all very well, but they want the honour to go to a born and bred local, not an out-of-towner.               

Wayne Marjoribanks always knew his dad was a great footy player. What he didn’t know was that the travelling confectionary salesman was the first Blues captain in what some rugby league historians consider the first ever State of Origin game. 

Rishi Sunak apologises on social media for leaving the event in Normandy prematurely to return to England for a TV interview ahead of the upcoming general election he called early.

The US President says all of Europe is threatened by Russian aggression.

US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were among state heads who travelled to northern France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. 

King Charles has led Britain’s commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings.

King Charles has made his first international visit on official duty since his cancer diagnosis.

The 75-year-old monarch, who recently resumed public engagements, is expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Joe Biden in France for the World War II anniversary.

A Japanese celebrity plastic surgeon puts a bounty on the head of a Chinese vlogger who sparked outrage by urinating and spray-painting "toilet" at Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine. 

The Tasmanian-made Huon pine patrol boat later known as Rushcutter may yet find its way home from a construction site in Darwin.

Volunteers are repainting hundreds of headstones at a cemetery in Far North Queensland and learning a lot about the people buried there.

An emotional Julie Carter, whose uncle Sid Thomas was killed in World War Two, learnt of his mettle 80 years after the letter was sent.

Indonesia is one of Australia's closest neighbouring countries, and yet how much is really known about its intricate past? Some of those gaps are being filled through the rediscovery of old music records.

An Adelaide book store owner has returned a letter detailing the service and death of a World War II soldier to his family.

In 1954, a group of Greek merchant seamen deserted a cargo steamer in Port Pirie in a risky bid to start new lives in Australia. The legacy they created is "amazing".

The Copeman family's commitment to the country spans generations from WWI to Vietnam. Now their legacy will live on in a memorial garden south-west of Sydney.

Anzac Day is commemorated across Australia and New Zealand, from dawn services and marches to games of two-up, on the 109th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings.

In the last days of 1943 a brave young Australian soldier, whose family played an influential role developing Australia's irrigation industries, lost his life trying to save wounded comrades in the mountains of Papua New Guinea. 

War widows across Australia are finding lifelong friendship and support through reviving the "dying art" of letter writing.

After 14 years with the Australian Army Reserve and the Australian Border Force, Daniel Dawson decided to investigate his Indigenous past. He found 32 family members who served during world wars I and II, and a special Boer War connection.

As the German artillery, infantry, and air force unleashed wave after wave of attacks on Tobruk, Hugh Paterson wrote poems to lift the morale of his fellow soldiers.

Charlie Lynn led trekkers across the rugged Kokoda Track for three decades — but after one trip last year, he decided the mountainous trail had fallen too far into disrepair for him to return.

In remembrance of Anzac Day, Tim Lee presents a story of a pioneering grazing family that gifted a property to commemorate the loss of two of its young men in WWII.

An untold amount of black, toxic oil is contained within the corroding wrecks of World War II ships scattered around the Pacific. And it's leaking into the ocean.

WA resident Joan Harlow has endured the loss of family members, dodged bullets and mastered the piano. She received an Arts degree at 75 and, at 105, is still loving life.