In December 1944, during the final months of World War 2, a small American reconnaissance platoon stood directly in the path ...

World War II was fought on land, sea, and air, but it was the small arms carried by millions of soldiers that shaped the ...

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

When we think of Germany’s armored might in World War II, names like Tiger and Panther often dominate the conversation[...] ...

"Germany invading Britain is always the funniest one to me. They could have smashed the RAF into oblivion and still not been ...

The last days of the Second World War were incredibly chaotic. To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had ...

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 ...

The American political thesis is that robust debate allows the best ideas to rise on their merits and the weaker ideas to fail on their illuminated fallacies. Unfortunately, we must sometimes debate ...

The rescue of the Lipizzaner horses in 1945 was one of the strangest operations of World War II with U S soldiers, German army POWs, freed Allied POWs and Cossack cavalry fighting side by side against ...

This list is part of an ongoing investigative project the Forward first published in January 2021 documenting hundreds of monuments around the world that honor people involved in the Holocaust. We are ...

Submitted Photo Sgt. Quentin Jelsing is shown during World War II in his service uniform. Quentin Jelsing of Rugby had just turned 18 when he decided to enlist to fight in World War II. His son, Terry ...