Family stories today: a dramatic glider pilot tale, Hollywood royalty, and sitting for Hitler’s artist.

Today’s family stories take us from the Ardennes snow to Normandy beaches, with a pioneering Windrush pilot in the mix.

Family Stories: surviving wartime Italy, predicting D-Day, and enduring Nazi occupation in the Netherlands.

Family Stories: sporting stars at war, Navy Commandos, and wartime mapping.

Family Stories: surviving a Japanese attack, an accident, and growing up in occupied Holland.

Family Stories: the Italian campaign, trumpeting at Bletchley Park, and surviving the Coventry Blitz.

Family Stories: hiding with Chetniks, a seafaring family’s tale, and a Jewish PT instructor’s revenge.

Family Stories include a Dutch hero fighting on land, sea, and air, a Blitz escape, and life in a POW camp.

Family Stories this week: an Irishman in the British Army, final battles in Europe, and a Kiwi in the Solomon Islands.

Family stories highlight a bestselling author, the crown jewels, Pacific battles, and life in a POW camp.

Desert medics, Sicilian dispatch riders, and wooden sheep fooling the Luftwaffe—family stories that bring the war to life.

This week’s tales feature a Battle of Britain pilot, an unexpected reunion of adversaries, and a story Spielberg couldn’t resist borrowing.

This week’s stories recount courage in Burma, the trials of POWs, and the experiences of children living under German occupation.

This week includes an IRA man fighting for Britain, a Scot enduring five years as a POW, and a young sailor braving U-boat-infested waters.

This week’s tales include a dramatic parachute jump on D-Day and tragic losses in both air and sea battles.

This week features a daring walk to freedom, a Dunkirk escape, and a harrowing initiation into the Caterpillar Club.

This week’s tales include witnessing the atomic bomb, a POW solving a medical emergency, and a training exercise gone explosively wrong.

Family Stories this week feature the daring mission to sink the Tirpitz, survival tales from the Atlantic, and a child’s view of occupied Holland.