In the winter of December 1944, deep within the Ardennes Forest of Belgium, a massive surge of German troops, over a ...

A flag-lowering ceremony is held at the Algona POW camp in 1945. Some 10,000 prisoners of war, mostly Germans, were ...

Up to 450,000 Poles served in the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany, during World War II. For years, they were ...

Caught in summer uniforms as temperatures plunged, German troops froze, starved, and retreated under relentless Soviet assaults. The Eastern Front became a war of attrition—against ice, mud, and human ...

The remains of a Navy veteran who died aboard the USS Glennon following the D-Day invasion in 1944 were buried with full military honors during a ceremony at St. Mary’s Cemetery on Thursday. Jerome ...

As he moved into his 90s, Al Habhab would confide to close friends that he already had made plans to celebrate his 100th ...

A 102-year-old Royal Navy veteran's memories of World War Two have been turned into a film as part of the 80th anniversary ...

In recent years, extensive conservation work has been undertaken in Block 15 of the main Auschwitz camp. The newly unveiled ...

This is the last of an occasional series of articles about the Arthur and Lillian Jones family of Marshalltown who sent two sons to World War II. Lillian Jones lived a long and good life of 88 years, ...

The Finnish Air Force will remove swastikas from its unit flags, with a commander citing “awkward situations” as the reason. Finland adopted the swastika as the emblem of its Air ...

The 145-lot collection, which belonged to Cheshire veteran, Edward Ernest Butler, known as Ted, was consigned by his family to Halls Fine Art’s militaria, naval and aviation auction in Shrewsbury. The ...