Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...

This attack was Adolf Hitler’s last attempt to turn World War II in his favor following the Allied D-Day invasion in June ...

Deep in a remote German forest where intense fighting took place in the final months of World War II, a group of relic ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - As the unprecedented D-Day invasion in France got underway in June 1944, German prisoners of war were arriving in Texas by the thousands. According to the Texas Historical ...

Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was ...

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline of World War II? Who, exactly, were the ‘Ghost Army’ in World War II? How ...

A small, wooden keepsake box adorned with carvings and the inscription, “Gefangenschaft Amerika 1944,” was donated in late January to the Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office for inclusion in the Fort ...

German engineers and scientists created some exceptional and novel military designs during WWII. Granted, not everything they created was an instant success, and they even created one fighter jet that ...

Much like WWII helped to build the Jeep empire we know today, the German military's answer to the Jeep helped shape the Volkswagen brand. Ferdinand Porsche began working on the development of Adolf ...

An unidentified member of the “Ghost Army” with an inflatable tank used to fool enemy forces in World War II. (National Archives/Wikimedia Commons) For five decades—from his discharge from the U.S.