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

FULL, Switzerland (Reuters) - A Swiss museum is restoring a rare King Tiger tank used by Nazi Germany's 506th Heavy Tank Battalion on the Western Front and hopes it will become the second driveable ...

In July 1944 it became evident it was only a matter of time until Nazi Germany would be defeated. The Allied forces had ...

Seventy-six years have passed since Christmas Day, 1944, but the haunting memory of that lonely holiday still brings tears to the eyes of Herman Beaty. At age 18, he was thousands of miles from home, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler and senior Nazi military officers met at the Wolf’s Lair in Rastenburg, Eastern Prussia. As the Nazi military leaders took their seats to discuss troop movements on the ...

Kershaw, author of the definitive biography of Hitler, is unsurpassed as an analyst of the Third Reich's inner dynamics. His latest work addresses a question as significant as it is overlooked. The ...

FULL, Switzerland (Reuters) – A Swiss museum is restoring a rare King Tiger tank used by Nazi Germany’s 506th Heavy Tank Battalion on the Western Front and hopes it will become the second driveable ...