In August 1944, seven hundred American soldiers were ordered to hold a rocky hill in Normandy against a massive German ...
When enemy planes appeared overhead, the U.S. Army didn’t just look up — it rolled out firepower. The M13, M15, and M16 half-tracks turned infantry support vehicles into deadly anti-aircraft platforms ...
Seven Japanese-American soldiers deemed “enemy aliens” in World War II were posthumously commissioned eight decades after ...
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — A giant portrait of Benito Mussolini hovered over the “Snow Stadium” — on the exact same ...
As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...
Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...