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

Arthur Monroe Lingo has finally come home. The World War II pilot, killed in action in 1944, is now at rest at National ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WFXR) — On Wednesday morning, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that 19-year-old Army Staff Sgt. Raymond C. Blanton of Richmond — who was killed during World War II ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Haunted by the ghosts of WWI and an uncertain Communist future, Allied forces decided to cover all their bases. American troops celebrate Germany's first unconditional surrender effective May 8, 1945.

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 ...

Flags in Iowa are at half-staff to honor an Iowan who was killed in World War II in 1944, according to the governor's office. U.S. Army Second Lt. Blaine Wilcox, from Pacific Junction, died during a ...