One of WWII’s most bizarre and unexpected battles took place at Castle Itter in May 1945. In this dramatic clash, American ...

The Australians hunted up to 60 kilometres behind the German front lines. An Australian newspaper described an occasion when a flight of four Spitfires spotted a single German military policeman ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Dark Docs. Ramming a Disguised WW2 Ship Full of Explosives into a German Submarine Base. Posted: May 30, 2025 | Last updated: June 6, 2025. Operation Chariot has been considered the most ...

Ironically, he and most of his family were executed by the German SS near the end of the Second World War. Ovazza’s passion for Mussolini is clearly reflected in his memoir of meeting Il Duce: He ...

KONGSBERG, Norway (AP) — In 1944, Norwegian resistance fighters in the town of Kongsberg blew up a factory making cannons for occupying Nazi German forces during World War II. More than 80 years later ...

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 ...