From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

From September 1941 to944, Leningrad endured one of the longest and deadliest sieges in history. In just one minute, this ...

In early 1944, as the siege of Leningrad collapses, retreating German forces are driven into a narrow corridor leading to ...

Marianna Kurilovich, the former chief music editor of Channel Five, who survived the siege of Leningrad, celebrated her ...

First, the country was a Nazi ally; then it became a NATO stooge. The latest allegation: It’s a reckless Russia-basher that ...

82 years ago today, a U.S. Coast Guard pilot flew history’s first helicopter rescue mission. On January 3, 1944, Coast Guard Pilot Frank Erickson flew straight into the teeth of a raging storm to ...

What’s Merry about all this, you ask? We’re fighting — it’s cold, we aren’t home. All true but what has the proud Eagle Division accomplished with its worthy comrades the 10th Armored Division, the ...

A German mother sheltered three lost American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge—and did the same for German soldiers hours later. This year marks the 81st anniversary of the infamous “Battle of ...

Eighty-one years ago this month, on Dec. 16, 1944, German forces launched their last major offensive on the Western Front. The Battle of the Bulge would become the largest and bloodiest single battle ...

Before Christmas in 1948, three U.S. Air Force pilots in Germany got a brilliant idea to help Santa Claus. Lt. Jack La Marr of Long Island, Capt. Sherwood Drumm of Massachusetts and Lt. F. Konop of ...

On Sept. 24, 1944, the Washington, D.C. Evening Star ran a remarkable op-ed by Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld of the Washington Hebrew Congregation. Gerstenfeld was born in London, England, on Sept. 1, 1904 ...