Seventy-six years have passed since Christmas Day, 1944, but the haunting memory of that lonely holiday still brings tears to the eyes of Herman Beaty. At age 18, he was thousands of miles from home, ...

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 ...

FULL, Switzerland (Reuters) - A Swiss museum is restoring a rare King Tiger tank used by Nazi Germany's 506th Heavy Tank Battalion on the Western Front and hopes it will become the second driveable ...

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 ...

The tank aces of the war are a bit lesser-known but no less interesting in my opinion. The most remarkable of these tank aces ...

If, as these apologists for Germany assert, the bulk of the German people after this war will be ready to live at peace with the world, and will regard their militarists as their real enemies, then ...

In September 1944, when Adolf Hitler first told his stunned generals of a plan for a massive counteroffensive in the West, he was thinking big. Like a losing gambler betting the last of his cash on a ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: A German victory in the Battle of the Bulge would not have changed the outcome of the war. In September 1944, when Adolf Hitler first told his stunned generals of a plan ...