They wore the red coat, but they spoke German. They were the only troops the Duke of Wellington trusted as[...] ...

Designed as a tool of retaliation, this World War 2 weapon was meant to punish enemy forces through sheer destructive power. Its deployment reflected how far wartime escalation had progressed, ...

In June 1944, the United States Navy did something it had not attempted since the War of 1812. American sailors boarded and ...

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 Olympics now stands.

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[...] ...

Discover a few interesting things you might not know about Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945—from royal princesses in conga lines to Stalin's demanding a second Nazi surrender.

Three US infantrymen in the snow during the Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, Belgium, World War II, January 1945.Getty Images As Christmas approached in December 1944, many Americans believed World War ...

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 ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The Bendlerblock is an imposing neoclassical building near the center of Berlin—severe and symmetrical ...

Polish Archbishops Karol Wojtyla of Krakow, the future Pope John Paul II, Boleslaw Kominek, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Wroclaw, and Antoni Baraniak of Poznan are seen in an undated ...