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

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

General Eisenhower’s prediction that the war in Europe would be won this year began to look more like a strict calculation than a wishful forecast. Germany’s outlook was far blacker in July 1944 than ...

The tank aces of the war are a bit lesser-known but no less interesting in my opinion. The most remarkable of these tank aces ...

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

(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. The invasion – codenamed ...

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, ...

The U.S. Eighth Air Force launched its bombing campaign against Nazi Germany, one of the largest, most important and most devastating strategic initiatives in the annals of warfare, on this day in ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - As the unprecedented D-Day invasion in France got underway in June 1944, German prisoners of war were arriving in Texas by the thousands. According to the Texas Historical ...

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

The defendant is said to have served as a guard at a camp for Soviet and Polish prisoners of war.The post Germany charges 100-year-old with World War II-related war crimes ...