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

This video tells the true story of Audie Murphy’s stand at Holtzwihr during World War II. It follows Murphy and the surviving ...

It's a catalog of deaths and atrocities he says were carried out on U.S. soldiers held by Nazis at a slave labor camp during World War II -- a largely forgotten legacy of the war. Acevedo pauses when ...

Decades later, the family of IU track star “the Mongo Miler” learned how he really died during World War II. And on Veterans Day, they want to share.

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

The surprise German air raid on December 2, 1943 of the Adriatic port of Bari, Italy has been called little Pearl Harbor for ...

At first, disarmament was imposed on Germany. American and Russian forces seized weapons depots, sealed off factories, and ...

After the World War II, Thanksgiving inspired Americans to feed hungry Europeans — including their recent enemies, the ...

History never feels out of reach in the capital of Saxony, lush with avant-garde art, restored Baroque architecture and one ...

The Duke of Kent, the last working member of the Royal Family to remember the war, will be joined by the German President as ...

December 8 marks the day when former US President Franklin D Roosevelt made the declaration of war against Japan before Congress. It’s also on this day that former Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin ...