The crossing of the Rhine River by Allied forces in March 1945 served as a pivotal moment in World War II, marking the ...

Private Ken Ward-Harvey was lucky to survive his first encounter with the enemy at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt in 1942. Ward-Harvey, a ­combat engineer or “sapper” with the 2/7th Field Company, ...

Morrison brought a copy of the letter with him when he visited Italy earlier this year – the same time a group from Fort Drum were there to observe the 80th anniversary of the 10th Mountain Division’s ...

Battle of Targu Frumos During April and May of 1944, the Soviet 2nd Tank Army tried to break through the German-Romanian lines on the river Pruth in order to gain access to Central Romania with its ...

Charles Hazlitt Upham was fighting in the North African front during World War 2 when he started throwing hand grenades at ...

But in his free time, Stemkens roams the nearby forests on both sides of the border, armed with the metal detector he uses to ...

History comes to life at Tidioute’s World War II days on Saturday and Sunday as World War II reenactors swarm this small town ...

MI6 is set to appoint Blaise Metreweli as its first female chief, three decades after Judi Dench's portrayal of 'M' in James ...

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

Three unexploded US bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city’s biggest evacuation since the end of the war. More than 20,000 residents were evacuated ...

COLOGNE, Germany — Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused Wednesday in Cologne after the German city’s biggest evacuation since the end of the war. More than 20,000 ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city's biggest evacuation since the end of the war.