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 ...

On Jan. 26, 1945, 19-year-old East Texan Audie Murphy almost single-handedly held off a German counteroffensive in occupied ...

The Battle of the Bulge is remembered for tanks, snow, and last-ditch resistance, but it was decided by something far less ...

Twenty-six men reached the top of Germany’s military ladder in WW2—handed the field marshal’s baton by Adolf Hitler—and not one of them escaped a final reckoning. This documentary follows the full ...

Mitchel Angelos, who turned 100 Jan. 14, lived an adventure that included growing up in abject poverty, serving during WW II ...

In a remote area of the Eastern Front, a remarkable discovery reveals a long-buried piece of German wartime gold, hidden since the chaos of WWII battles. As relics surface from the soil—shell ...

On Nov. 7, 1944, the convergence of both forces in Central Europe led to the only documented direct combat between American and Soviet forces in history. American P-38 Lightning fighters attacked what ...

Across sleepy and remote islands in the Pacific, U.S. military engineers are working around the clock to revive strategically important airstrips that American troops first built under fire over 70 ...