The 45th was the only "green" division in the invasion with no combat experience. Its 180th Infantry Regiment struggled badly ...

Here are the fifteen most awe-inspiring but relatively unknown American military heroes who seriously need to have Hollywood ...

RAF hero Albert served with No. 10 Squadron and was part of the fabled Bomber Command, flying 37 night-time raids over ...

Archival photos show how Greenland became a Danish territory and why the United States is seeking to take control of the ...

His first feature-length movie, in 1971, was called his country’s “Stonewall moment,” for jump-starting a gay-rights movement ...

Italian women kept people alive long enough to keep fighting. Women served as nurses, assisted wounded partisans and sick ...

Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...

NINOSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western island started making the treat that has thrived in ...

A German Luftwaffe pilot and a Mississippi Delta farmer’s wife made a run for it in January 1946, eight months after World War II ended in Europe. Their brief escape captured headlines across the ...

FORT KNOX, Ky. — Accompanied by the Fort Knox Garrison command team, two German liaison officers visited the Fort Knox Post Cemetery in recognition of the annual Volkstrauertag Nov. 19, or National ...

CLARK COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) - There are countless stories of World War II, including those of the captured. A Wisconsin family is putting one of those on full display ...

To remember their sacrifices and suffering, to glean the meaning of their lives, we will need to find them where they rest in fields of grass. Hal LaCroix is the author of the history book “Journey ...