In June 1944, the United States Navy did something it had not attempted since the War of 1812. American sailors boarded and ...
One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...
The Yak-9 performed more anti-tank missions, in particular, the Yak-9T variant with a 37mm cannon, in this case the Nudelman-Suranov NS-37 (also fitted to the Ilyushin Il-2 and Lavochkin LaGG-3). This ...
The PBY-5A Catalina seaplane “Princess of the Stars” visits Oahu for the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in 2020. The Pentagon’s renewed interest in seaplanes reflects a recognition that ...
At 104 years old, Staff Sergeant Dominick Critelli is staying sharp. The World War II veteran performed the national anthem at UBS Arena on Saturday, before the New York Islanders matchup against the ...
Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...
BERLIN — German lawmakers on Friday approved the government's plan to attract more military recruits as the country tries to boost the ranks of its armed forces in the face of rising concern about the ...
During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...
A 79 YEAR OLD CENTRAL FLORIDA GRANDFATHER IS NOW IN FEDERAL CUSTODY FOR A DECADES OLD DEPORTATION ORDER. HE WAS BORN IN A REFUGEE CAMP AFTER AFTER WORLD WAR TWO AND NEVER RECEIVED A BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
Almost one century ago, countless families were forced to flee the country that then housed the best universities in the world. One of those families was mine. My paternal grandparents left Germany in ...
Hidden deep in the woods, we stumbled upon what appears to be a secret German WW2 hideout — complete with an anti-tank weapon still inside. What was this bunker defending, and who built it? The Snags ...