James Megellas, a highly decorated WWII veteran who graduated from Ripon College, served with distinction in the 82nd Airborne Division. Learn about his heroic actions and legacy.

A giant portrait of Benito Mussolini hovered over the “Snow Stadium” — on the exact same grounds where the curling arena for the Milan Cortina Winter ...

From helmets and medals to Lugers and flags, American soldiers in World War II brought home countless German war trophies as ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

Why First Lieutenant Garlin Murl Conner called artillery fire on his own position during WW2 — and stopped 600 Germans[...] ...

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

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) new supercomputer has been dedicated in honor of a ...

While exploring former battle zones in the Ardennes, a rare WWII German Infantry Assault Badge emerges from the soil after ...

During World War Two, a pair of physicists went to great lengths to keep their Nobel Prize medals out of the hands of the Nazis. Here’s the absolutely wild story.

One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...

Although Machado's gesture marks a rare instance of a living laureate parting with their medal shortly after receiving it, it ...