It was supposed to be a routine mission. On April 10, 1944, Maj. Donald K. Willis, flying with the 55th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, was tasked with escorting an Allied bombing run on a ...

While retracing his steps the pilot mistakenly walked straight into a German anti-aircraft battery. To Willis’ astonishment, however, the sentry barely glanced.

The German barrage had transformed their HQ at Hotel de La Poste into a lethal trap. Yet his orders were clear: (QUOTE): "Stay at your post. Hold the town at all costs." ...

They have just fired five of a new type of missile, which they call Banderol, into our area," said Artem, 34, commander of an anti-aircraft missile battery with 30 soldiers, deployed in southern ...

The British deployed 700 paratroopers and several large pieces of equipment that would come in via gliders to take control of the battery. But the landing was chaotic.

In 1933, the last effective year of the Versailles-League of Nations system, the world's armies numbered 7,000,000 men, its navies totaled 3,000,000 tons, its military planes were 14,000, and ...

The "Dragon" in question was a captured German Focke Achgelis Fa 223 helicopter, the first of its kind to fly over the English Channel. It landed under a veil of utmost secrecy at Beaulieu ...

The most famous military photoreporter of the USSR, Yevgeny Khaldei (1917-1997), photographed pilots, paratroopers, infantrymen and submariners — he was there by their side throughout WWII.

More than 20,000 residents evacuated a German city after three U.S. WWII bombs were discovered in Cologne, requiring hours of careful diffusion work before people could return to their homes.

The German city cordoned off a huge area, ... Finding bombs from WW2 is not unusual in German cities such as Cologne and Berlin, but these bombs were particularly large. Reuters.

BERLIN — Some 20,500 people were evacuated on Wednesday from the city of Cologne, in western Germany, as explosives experts prepared to defuse three unexploded World War II bombs found during ...

Merz and ministers sharpen criticism of Israel Germany traditionally feels special responsibility after WW2 German public opinion also shifting More than half of Germans oppose weapons exports ...