On 12th July 1945, Lance Corporal R.J. Payne of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps fulfilled a life-long ambition, to parade in The Twelfth in Northern Ireland.

On 1st June 1944, Boeing B-17 #42-97862 en-route from Gander, Newfoundland crashed on the slopes of Cave Hill, Belfast killing 10 of the crew members onboard.

Sergeant Frank Massie Seitz Jr. died on 26th May 1945 while serving with 343rd Squadron, 325th Service Group, United States Army Air Force in Northern Ireland.

The Royal Ulster Constabulary Barracks on Glenravel Street took a direct hit from a Luftwaffe bomb in May 1941 resulting in the death of several officers.

Known as "Big Tom", Lance Sergeant Thomas Pearson was a goalkeeper with Glentoran F.C. He posthumously received the Military Medal for actions in North Africa.

Seaman 1st Class Henry Elnathan Beckwith survived the crash of a U.S. Navy Liberator off the Irish coast but died on board a life raft before coming ashore.

On 21st April 1941, His Royal Highness, the Duke of Gloucester arrived at R.A.F. Aldergrove, Co. Antrim to begin a short visit to Ulster.

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On the night of 15th-16th April 1941, the Luftwaffe attacked Northern Ireland causing deaths in the coastal town of Bangor, Co. Down as well as in Belfast city.

On 7th-8th April 1941, the Luftwaffe attacked the city of Belfast causing the deaths of a relatively low number of casualties mainly in the docks and shipyards.

Sergeant Vincent Kane of Portadown, Co. Armagh served in the Royal Artillery and saw action at Dunkirk and in Normandy before dying in Northern Ireland in 1946.

During the Second World War, the tradition of presenting the shamrock and the wearing of the green among Irish regiments of the British Army continued.

On 12th March 1941, the traditional presentation of the shamrock to a battalion of Royal Irish Fusiliers took place at Abercorn Barracks, Ballykinler, Co. Down.

Petty Officer Matthew Thomas Archer died as a result of the sinking of merchant vessel S.S. Empire Impala in 1943. His name is on the Portadown War Memorial.

Serjeant Norman Hewitt, a solicitor and rugby player, died on 9th March 1943 while serving in Tunisia with C Squadron, North Irish Horse, Royal Armoured Corps.

On 6th March 1944, U.S. soldier Private Wiley Harris Jr. and Harry Coogan argued in Earl Street, Belfast. Harris unsheathed a knife with fatal consequences.

Several seafaring men with connections to Northern Ireland died on S.S. Cadillac as the British merchant tanker came under torpedo attack on 1st March 1941.

On 28th February 1944, the G.O.C Northern Ireland and the Prime Minister observed the testing of American waterproofed vehicles at Lady's Bay, Lough Neagh.