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

In order to march on Antwerp, the German Wehrmacht needed to first capture Freyneux—and the US Army stopped it in its tracks.

As the community gathered to mark his milestone birthday, Edward Born shared his simple advice for leading a good, long life: ...

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

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

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

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

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

WORLD War Two codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who worked with Alan Turing to crack the German Enigma code, has died aged 99. Ms ...