During the Battle of Caporetto in late 1917 during World War I, a young German officer by the name of Erwin Rommel led an elite team of around 100 Stormtroopers that captured around 9,000 Italian ...

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 ...

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 ...

UP to 20,000 people have been forced to evacuate a historic German city after three unexploded WW2 bombs were found. Large parts of Cologne’s city centre, including hospitals, care … ...

On June 4, 1944, the last of German occupiers fled Rome ahead of the advancing U.S. 9th Army.

German construction sites have regularly unearthed unexploded World War II ordnance. In Frankfurt, the discovery of a 1.4-tonne bomb in 2017 led to the removal of 65,000 people, the biggest such ...

While doing road repairs in Wrocław, Poland, workers recently came across more than 50 military helmets from World War I and ...

Members of the German military will be honored in the country's first-ever Veterans Day on June 15. Big parties and protests are planned in Berlin and other cities nationwide.

And all German prisoners of war had long since been repatriated. He finally became a US citizen in 2009 and died aged 92 in 2013. Fittingly, his headstone was inscribed with both of his names.