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

On June 22, 1941, the armed forces of Germany and its allies launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. Stretching from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, three German ...

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

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.

When you think about more recent military history, it’s unsurprising that World War II is the centerpiece of most ...

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

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

Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout tells the story of Corporal Carroll Lee Hupp of Licking County and the Battle of ...

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

Eighty years ago, the world won a great victory in the war against fascism. At the cost of tens of millions of lives, ...

Here’s a collection of excerpts from the special columns of This Month in Fort McCoy history that highlighted history at then-Camp McCoy in September ...