All hell broke loose over Bavaria as Eduard Schallmoser, a 21-year-old Me 262 hotshot handpicked to fly wingman for Adolf ...

German airline Lufthansa is one of many big-name brands that collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust. As the airline ...

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

Closed off from the world, the little wooded isle of Poveglia in the Venetian Lagoon has a haunting history. It’s also known ...

Even if you are avowedly unreligious, a church can be a powerful and moving thing – conjuring everything from admiration for ...

A German mother sheltered three lost American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge—and did the same for German soldiers hours later.

Never was aeronautical engineering more significant than in the six years of the second world war. A deadly technological ...

Dexter resident recalls his uncle’s release from a Russian prison camp and the unlikely chain of events that led him home ...

The 1945 Trinity test produced heat 10,000 times greater than the surface of the sun and spread fallout across the country. Tina Cordova and her mother, Rosalie, relax at Bonito Lake, New Mexico, in ...

A ‘Diary’ of the Most Critical Ten Days of the Battle of Britain. Written by a prolific author – who started back when there were many veterans available for interviews – ...

Eighty years ago, five planes vanished during a training run off the Florida coast. A patrol plane sent to search for the men went missing, too, giving rise to a host of conspiracy theories Francine ...