Ernest “Smokey” Smith crawls through the rain-drenched night, his uniform caked with mud. It is October 21, 1944, and the bad ...

In the chaos of the Battle of the Bulge, German command launched one of the most daring deception operations of the war.

Greece paid tribute this weekend to Fort Roupel and the underground forts of the Metaxas Line, on the border of Greece and ...

World War II certainly brought the strands of world history together, with its global reach and its acceleration of the end ...

From the East China Sea to the skies and battlefields of France, the Family of Benelux employee Scott Moore bravely heeded ...

Remembering these remarkable contributions and the people who served when the 80th anniversary of V-E Day is celebrated.

Exactly 80 years ago, on April 30, 1945, Darby and Sgt. Maj. John “Tim” Evans, were killed. On that same day in WWII, a DUKW ...

CLINTON, Iowa — A Clinton native who parachuted into Normandy during World War II has died at the age of ... He would be taken prisoner by the German Army just weeks later, and was sent to ...

Army veteran Harry Miller was stationed in Germany when the Nazis surrendered. Upon hearing the news, he recalls that ...

Guns, uniforms ... the German Occupation Graeme Delanoe is a collector of Occupation artefacts - concealed behind two heavy reinforced doors at his Jersey home is a garage full of German military ...

For Jack Appel, 101, the Allies' victory in Europe − made official on May 8, 1945 − wasn't just vital because otherwise, as he said, "we'd all be speaking German ... uniform during World War II.

Jack Dougherty, a World War II veteran who lived ... first day in Dachau, a German officer, the camp commander, came out of a building dressed in his full dress uniform with all his medals and ...