This find, made in May, serendipitously coincided with the 80th anniversary of the end of the Nazi occupation of Breslau in 1945. The helmets offered a glimpse into the final moments of a war whose ...

World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians ... making it unhurt to the bluffs that overlook the beach and which in 1944 were studded with German gun emplacements that mowed down American soldiers.

COLOGNE, Germany — Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city’s biggest evacuation since the end of the war. More than 20,000 ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.

marking its first permanent foreign deployment since WWII. The deployment will strengthen NATO’s eastern flank and deter Russian aggression. German military personnel will be permanently based ...

which has leaned away from heavy defense actions and spending since World War II. But Germany's defense spending has grown since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and German ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks during the Bundestag ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. On May 8, 1945, the war in Europe ended following ...

U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach told the tale of that little-known World War II feat Friday with a screening ... About 100 soldiers, civilians and German residents showed up to watch the 2020 ...

on Thursday welcomed the decision taken by the German parliament to exclude Russia and Belarus from the main commemorative event marking the end of World War II in Berlin. Alicia Windzio/dpa ...

The German pillboxes had pinned down Treadwell ... their fight into Nazi Germany’s final place of retreat in World War II. According to the Department of Defense, Treadwell was subsequently ...

German engineers and scientists created some exceptional and novel military designs during WWII. Granted, not everything they created was an instant success, and they even created one fighter jet ...