What looks like an empty forest floor still holds the personal traces of wartime lives. At the site of a former German base, ...

What starts as quiet detecting soon uncovers a deep layer of wartime life and propaganda. At a former Wehrmacht camp on the ...

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

Olympic fans may know that Cortina d’Ampezzo hosted the Winter Games once before, in 1956. Less well known is that 15 years ...

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.

A British drama starring Anthony Hopkins in a moving true story has just been added to BBC iPlayer. Directed by James Hawes, ...

Lomell, who grew up in Point Pleasant Beach and later lived in Toms River, gained worldwide acclaim in the 1990s when his actions on June 6, 1944, were featured in books by historian Stephen Ambrose ...

A rare George Cross awarded to a war hero who was killed as he disarmed a mine dropped during the Blitz is to be auctioned ...

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 ...

Amanda Aussems-Poskanzer of Slingerlands led hundreds during a weekly Run for Their Lives walk through Albany for more than ...