World War II

Veteran and former ‘button boy’ Myles Shandley, now 91, in Edinburgh last week

75 years after VE Day, veterans are enlisted to help Scotland remember

March 1, 2020

Jimmy Johnstone, 98, from Aberdeen

Ex-POW recalls escape bid on Nazi death march

November 9, 2019

Glasgow Museums curator John Messner (L) and Squadron Leader Archie McCallum of the 602 City of Glasgow Squadron unveil the new display

Exploits of ‘ace’ Glasgow World War II pilot explored in new Kelvingrove display

October 29, 2019

Sir Robert Watson-Watt with his first wife Margaret

How a trove of letters reveal the secret (and very tangled) life of the Scot who downed the Luftwaffe

October 1, 2019

Four British paratroopers who were captured on the last outpost on Arnhem Bridge and taken captives to Germany are shown, as they later escaped through a German town and woods, to reach Nijmegen and the British Second Army after rowing across the Rhine in a boat they found

Operation Market Garden, 75 years on: The story of the daring mission which proved a bridge too far

September 17, 2019

St Andrews House, Edinburgh. It was constructed in 1937 and earmarked by Nazis as a potential headquarters.

80 years on: On the edge of war – Scotland prepares to face down Hitler

August 25, 2019

Ken and Ethel

Wartime letters from her mother to her father inspired Polly Pattison’s Fringe play Keep Your Chin Up

August 11, 2019

Robert Guy, left, with twin brother Charles

The bond of brothers: The story behind the twins hailed by PM who died within weeks of each other as Allies pushed into Europe

June 17, 2019

Bayeux War Cemetery

Politicians and veterans to attend D-Day memorial service at France’s Bayeux War Cemetery

June 6, 2019

British troops make their way to Juno beach as the invasion gets under way

Remembering D-Day: How Operation Bodyguard deception duped Hitler’s forces

June 6, 2019

Landing on Normandy during D-Day

Remembering D-Day: The greatest invasion fleet ever assembled

June 6, 2019