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 ...
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 ...