The División Azul, or Spanish Blue Division, was a unit of about 45,000 volunteers from Francoist Spain that fought alongside ...

Research suggests it was the first American flag carried into Europe by the U.S. Army when the regiment landed in Belfast on ...

Memorial Day will be different for Donald Willis this year, when he visits the grave of the uncle for whom he was named.

Thursday marks 80 years since the Allied victory in Europe. The National World War II Museum estimates less than 1 percent of American servicemen who fought during that time are still alive today.

FLOSSENBÜRG, Germany — Shelomo Selinger spent a little more than a month at the Nazi concentration camp here during World War II before ... U.S. Army’s 90th Infantry Division on April 23 ...

The 45th Infantry Division, known as the Thunderbirds, played a crucial role in the Italian campaign during World War II. The Thunderbirds ... liberated one of Nazi Germany's most notorious ...

But the two special visitors had been to Camp Shanks before – they were among the soldiers of the 65th Infantry Division of the ... Shanks was the largest World War II port of embarkation.

The American 5th Army had invaded months earlier, but found itself stuck in a stalemate against Italian and German ... the infantry could follow in their sleds,” one World War II-era newsreel ...

Stéphanie Le Bris' family donated land in Normandy for a cemetery for fallen U.S. soldiers. Her grandmother's diary is ...

He was on a transport ship with more than 200 others a few miles off Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, or D-Day, as heavy German ... the 29th Infantry Division that fought in World War II.

Ostar pulled the buckle off of a dead German soldier when, as a U.S. Army private, he helped liberate the notorious Dachau concentration camp at the end of World War II. That liberation ...