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

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp, was liberated 80 years ago. Here’s a brief description of the liberating ...

It's not just Israel's leaders who may need to be wary of traveling abroad. Now soldiers who have served in Gaza appear to face a growing risk of arrest themselves over allegations of war crimes ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the ...

As it prepared to advance on German troops, he had no idea he would be killed by sunset, another tragedy of the war to end all wars ... Edwards of Newark among WWII concentration camp liberators ...

It’s true that peppered throughout the immediacy of the first-person narration, from a German infantryman named Paul Bäumer, one can find comments about the callous suits who confect war and ...

Hirsch told the auditorium about a heroic German doctor who risked his life ... where they hid in an isolated monastery until the end of World War II. Goren is also the co-leader of Melodians ...

Explaining the Holocaust to young people Groups of German soldiers called Einsatzgruppen set out across newly conquered lands in Eastern Europe to massacre civilians. By the end of 1941 ...

The Cuban government said Wednesday that 13 soldiers had died after an explosion a week earlier in an arms depot in the country's east. Cuba's Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces said in a ...