NSW Premier Chris Minns and Minister for Veterans David Harris today announced the 18 NSW students awarded a NSW Government scholarship to travel to ...

In May 1941, Germany launched the Battle of Crete, the largest airborne assault the world had ever seen. Thousands of paratroopers and glider troops descended on the island expecting a rapid victory.

Hermann Göring lies in his bunk in jail during the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. (National Archives) His impressive girth, bombast and outlandish costumes made ...

In May 1941, Hitler launched a bold experiment, take the island of Crete using only airborne troops. Over 500 transport planes, thousands of paratroopers, and glider teams were hurled at the island in ...

Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 5th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...

On June 2, 1941, a brutal massacre took place in the village of Kondomari, 18km west of Chania. The Massacre of Kondomari was an execution of male civilians from the village of Kondomari in Crete, by ...

The New Plymouth Returned Services Association will hold its annual Crete Day Commemoration outside the city’s courthouse at 11am on Saturday. The ceremony remembers those lost in the Battle of Crete ...

W. Lee Deutsche, 80, of Crete, Illinois, passed away on January 22, 2022, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois, on April 1, 1941, to LeRoy and Esther ...