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

On a quiet European farm field once filled with military tents, a day of detecting with WW2Unknown turns into a string of ...

In early 1943, the U.S. Army suffered a humiliating defeat in North Africa and was written off as unready for modern war.

Eighty years ago today, German artillery opened fire on an inexperienced American division that had been at the front for ...

You may have heard Special Forces and Special Operations used interchangeably, but there is actually an important difference ...

In order to march on Antwerp, the German Wehrmacht needed to first capture Freyneux—and the US Army stopped it in its tracks.

The legend of Jasper Maskelyne, a British stage magician who helped hide Allied military installations during World War II, has likely been embellished beyond his actual accomplishments.

Peter Kindred grew up in a farmhouse stuffed with World War Two arms and explosives. His father's Home Guard uniform was ...

Eighty years after the lights were plugged into a humming Army generator, the spirit of the “greatest celebration in American ...

On Aug. 27, he was one of 27 servicemen called to the White House to receive the Medal of Honor from President Truman. Still being a Mexican citizen, he was subsequently summoned to Mexico City to ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. The Bendlerblock is an imposing neoclassical building near the center of Berlin—severe and symmetrical ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...