During the Second World War, there were multiple people from Allied countries who deserted to the Axis powers. Actually, ...

Airman Clifford Keeney was shot down over Germany in 1944. His family waited eight decades for his remains to finally be ...

This United States pilot stationed in Karachi, India, deserted several weeks before his 23rd birthday. Playing a bit of bluff ...

THE WILD BLUE: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany, 1944-1945. By Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon & Schuster, $26. FLAK hit the plane ... Oil streamed out of the engine, and flame was belching ...

A 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield on Nov. 12, 1944. Lt.

A 1941 graduate of Sugar Notch High School, Joseph John Miskel was one of thousands of young men and women who enlisted in the U.S. Armed Services at the outbreak of World War II. While each have ...

Brought to life by best-selling historian Ambrose (author of more than 20 books), here is one of America's forgotten workhorse weapons of WWII—the B-24 bomber. Carrying a heavier payload than the ...

Throughout December, the 29th Division’s front was “quiet,” meaning that there were no large-scale combat operations in their sector, but artillery was fired back and forth across the Roer, and German ...

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(CNN) — June 6, 2024 marks 80 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. (CNN) — June 6, 2024 marks 80 ...

Keeney died in Sept. 1944 when his plane was shot down in Germany. His remains were discovered in 1991, recovered in 2008, ...