It would be a sight to send cold chills down the spine of any Allied soldier. Crouching down behind cover, firing at German ...

When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...

On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter, the German army launched a counteroffensive ... (Photo: U.S. Army) Seventy years after the end of WWII's Battle of the Bulge, the U.S. Department of Veterans ...

After decades of discrimination, Vernon Baker was finally recognized for his heroism during an assault on a German stronghold ...

LUBLIN, Poland (JTA) — When Karla McCabe was a child in East Germany in the 1970s and ‘80s, she knew her grandfather had been a German soldier in World War II. But exactly what he did during ...

Over 50 million soldiers and civilians died ... surrenders and the most destructive war in history comes to an end. WW2: How was D-Day, the biggest ever seaborne invasion, launched?

In the end, the men held out for eight days against constant, ferocious German attacks. With many men badly wounded and some dead, on the eighth day the soldiers were forced to surrender.

Two Beaver County residents lost their lives 81 years ago in a German minefield explosion that killed hundreds of soldiers aboard ... As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from ...

Vernon Baker is among the seven Black American troops to receive the Medal of Honor for their actions during WWII ... talents into play — shot two German soldiers in an observation post ...