This video is not monetized. The Second World War produced many tales of heroic soldiers, sailors, pilots and their victories ...

This United States pilot stationed in Karachi, India, deserted several weeks before his 23rd birthday. Playing a bit of bluff, he ended up in German-held territory in Europe, joined the ss propaganda ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Even with thirty panzer and infantry divisions backed by six hundred tanks, the Germans were not going to disembowel the Allied armies as they had done to the French ...

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 ...

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 ...

Father Max Josef Metzger, a Catholic priest executed by the Nazi regime in 1944 for his peace activism and ecumenical work, was beatified Sunday in Freiburg, Germany. Cardinal Kurt Koch, prefect of ...

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 ...