The German success in concentrating and using armored forces in a fast-moving offensive in the early stages of WWII astounded ...

It was all over for the Allies. By May 20, 1940, German Panzer divisions had reached Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme ...

German leaders intend to ramp up defense spending and build the most powerful armed forces in Europe, but shadows of World ...

Italy, the spring of 1944. The American 5th Army had invaded months earlier, but found itself stuck in a stalemate against Italian and German forces in the winter months. A breakout was needed ...

LA FIERE BRIDGE, NORMANDY, France – In recognition of the heroic actions of the Eighth Air Force during World War II, The ...

More than 20,000 residents evacuated a German city after three U.S. WWII bombs were discovered in Cologne, requiring hours of careful diffusion work before people could return to their homes.

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with naval and air support to land behind German lines at Anzio and to cut ...

Manlius, N.Y. -- Stanley Stanley spent his 25th birthday in the Dutch countryside, on the run from German forces that caused his B-24 Bomber to crash in occupied Holland. This was in 1944, in the ...

Facing determined German troops, soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion scaled this height at a high cost in men in 1944 during World War II.

Mr. Trump’s claim that the United States did more than any other nation to defeat Nazi Germany might be contested in Russia, which commemorates the Soviet victory over German forces in World War ...

German fighter planes were deadly in WWII, ... The theaters of World War II were swarming with notable aircraft, ... Allied forces started targeting them when they returned to base to refuel and ...

Shocking gamble Nazi forces took in WW2 to attack France, Belgium and Luxenbourg ... On May 21, a strong force of British tanks attacked a German column near Arras ...