A 23-year-old Canadian sniper wearing an eye patch walked into the Dutch city of Zwolle just after midnight on April 14, 1945 ...

Eighty years after a traffic accident in postwar Germany fatally injured Gen. George S. Patton Jr., a small group gathered at ...

Lt. Jack Taylor of the Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to the CIA) is one of many victims of the Holocaust whose ...

Eddie Slovik made a series of decisions that turned him into the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil ...

Eleven cadets and midshipmen who played for their service academies would go on to receive the nation's highest award for ...

Merrill Eisenhower told JI while visiting Holocaust survivors in the U.K. that his ancestor would be ‘disturbed’ by the rise ...

Maine will lower flags on Friday to honor Charles Norman Shay, the decorated Penobscot elder and D-Day medic who died last ...

The Palace of Versailles will investigate the origins of a Jacques-Louis David sketchbook that was found to have been looted ...

His family learned of his death on Dec. 16, 1941. Within three weeks North End leaders arranged to have Mussolini Street ...

The Belarusian Lev Khodanovich was a legendary scout during the Great Patriotic War. Working behind enemy lines, he managed ...

2003 — New Orleans Saints receiver Joe Horn is fined $30,000 by the NFL for making a choreographed cell-phone call in the end zone to celebrate a touchdown during the Saints’ 45-7 rout of the New York ...

“If I had my way, I would hang all Jews in the country,” roared Ralph Ninfo in a 1938 as pro-Mussolini Italian American fascists and pro-Hitler German American Bund members met at a Bund rally in New ...