Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was ...

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 ...

What looked like a catastrophic Allied blunder became an unexpected intelligence revelation. Two days after the bombing, Allied commanders learned the truth through intercepted German communications.

Five years after its release, a modern WW2 naval film is surging again, as Tom Hanks' Greyhound remains a fan favorite on ...

Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and ...

The 21st century battleships would be as different from the Iowa-class battleships of World War II as those warships were ...

On the morning of December 16, 1944, more than 200,000 German soldiers and about 1,000 tanks launched a surprise attack on ...

A World War Two veteran who fought in Normandy as a teenager before becoming a prisoner of war has died at the age of 100, a ...

Amid the hardships of the war, Christmas dinner became an annual reprieve for far-flung troops across the globe.

In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such ...

Christmas is traditionally intended to be a time of peace and celebration—but most recent wars have continued unabated during the holiday season.