On Dec. 19, 1941, in the pre-dawn darkness, six Italian commandos slipped into Alexandria harbor in Egypt. British troops and sailors had spotted an Italian reconnaissance plane days earlier, and ...

I recently discovered a World War II commando who was an unsung action hero — Irishman Lt. Col. Robert “Paddy” Mayne, one of the most decorated British Army officers of the war. Born in 1915 to a ...

Gordon Quan is also being remembered as a pillar of Victoria’s Chinese community, a tireless worker and volunteer.

They were World War II’s weirdest warriors: the Creature Commandos. While DC Comics had published the wartime tales of Sgt. Rock and the Blackhawks, and pit Superman and Batman against the Axis powers ...