A World War II veteran who was a prisoner of war in Germany during the last few weeks of the war will be celebrating his 100th birthday soon — and will be returning to Germany for the first time since ...

A small, wooden keepsake box adorned with carvings and the inscription, “Gefangenschaft Amerika 1944,” was donated in late January to the Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office for inclusion in the Fort ...

On September 1, 1939, the opening shots of World War II thundered across the Baltic coast as the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein bombarded the Polish military depot at Westerplatte near the Free ...

Before the marches, women were already fighting. Meet the Soviet bombers, the deadliest sniper in history, and the spy who ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of 6 linear feet of mostly correspondence and photographs gathered by Schulze or Toliver, of German aces and pilots, ...

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. – Fort George G. Meade held a joint wreath-laying ceremony Sunday, November 19, 2023, alongside representatives from Germany and Italy in honor of the two Italian and 33 ...

Halbe, Germany — In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black coffins, ...

Specialists in Germany have successfully defused an unexploded bomb dropped by American troops during World War II. The 500-kilogram (1,110-pound) ordnance was discovered last Wednesday during ...

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

From the Me 262 to late-war Spitfires and Mustangs, this list ranks WWII’s quickest combat-ready aircraft by top speed and ...