A 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield on Nov. 12, 1944. Lt.

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

As World War II drew to a close, Rheinmetall’s simple bolt-action design in 8x33mm—militarily designated VG-3 and commercially VG45K—was tested and approved in December 1944 as a low-cost Volkssturm ...

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

As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a ...

At first, disarmament was imposed on Germany. American and Russian forces seized weapons depots, sealed off factories, and ...

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

The life of a former Spitfire pilot who disappeared during a night-time flight 50 years ago has been recalled in a new ...

D-Day veteran Charles Shay was awarded the Silver Star for repeatedly plunging into the sea and carrying critically wounded ...

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 ...