On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black ...

"Tyler was one great man." With help from Pennsylvania college student Tyler Boland, World War II veteran Russell Sattazahn made an emotional trip back to Germany after 80 years.

What starts as a search through abandoned German barracks quickly turns into a serious discovery when war documents, military equipment, and personal items begin to emerge from the ground. The biggest ...

World War II produced some of the most recognizable military weapons ever made, but few were more important than the rifles issued to ordinary soldiers. Millions of troops depended on these firearms ...

The post-war narrative of the German U-boat efforts follows several stages: the first “Happy Time,” followed by the second “Happy Time,” and then utter destruction by the Allies. In reality, the ...

As a result, there is no question that some military inventions found a place during the war, but looking back today, they ...

Much like WWII helped to build the Jeep empire we know today, the German military's answer to the Jeep helped shape the Volkswagen brand. Ferdinand Porsche began working on the development of Adolf ...