German soldiers entered World War II believing British troops were weak and unwilling to fight. Through battles from Dunkirk ...

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

Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...

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

In this rare interview, a German teen who manned the 88mm flak gun shares his gripping story of survival amidst the chaos of ...

On Christmas 1914, thousands of WWI enemies briefly laid down their guns, meeting in No Man’s Land to sing carols, swap gifts and even play soccer.

Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. That’s tricky in a country where the Nazi era casts a long shadow. By Christopher ...

As the city of Aachen, once the seat of power of the emperor Charlemagne, lay in ruins in World War II’s bitterest winter, an American soldier worked feverishly alongside German civilians to make sure ...

Army officials in Germany removed a list of German-run food banks from a “Shutdown Guidance” webpage aimed at soldiers stationed in that country, hours after the list was met with outrage on social ...

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — Police in southern Bavaria mistakenly shot a German soldier this week after their response to reports of a man carrying a weapon took them into a unilateral military exercise.

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Mich,. (WPBN/WGTU) - - In the small town of Evart, a poignant tribute unfolded as the community gathered to honor Private Joseph Guyton, a World War I soldier who was the first ...

Wolf Forster visited a doctor for a checkup recently. As Forster approached the office without a cane or walker, the doctor suggested the 99-year-old La Jolla resident use one just in case he might ...