Major Robert Swenson USAFR (Retired), of Bellevue, will be awarded the Bronze Star medal on Aug. 10 for his actions in the last major airborne operation of World War II in Europe. The award will be ...
Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline ...
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - As the unprecedented D-Day invasion in France got underway in June 1944, German prisoners of war were arriving in Texas by the thousands. According to the Texas Historical ...
This Christmas Inge Nedden will honor a father she never knew in a land thousands of miles from her native Germany. Her father, Captain Hans Langsdorff, was the commander of the German battleship Graf ...
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — On April 8, 1945, hundreds of American bombers unleashed a wave of ordnance over this Bavarian village, destroying much of a sprawling military training base and setting ...
One good turn, the saying goes, deserves another. The Allied forces of World War II were more than ready to accept a Nazi surrender, but when they realized they might have left a potential loophole ...
Key Point: Nazi prowess and technological might have been greatly exaggerated. When over 1.5 million German soldiers poured over the Polish border on September 1, 1939 in an Operation codenamed Fall ...
The tank’s modern reputation as a fast, hard-hitting, deadly war chariot is largely due to the German Army’s use of the tank in the early years of World War II. Although first invented by the British ...
Ukraine's military has chosen a defensive strategy that echoes the German approach from WWII. Lacking enough troops to defend its huge territory, Nazi Germany opted for a mobile defense. Even an ...
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