African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant ...

With German Zeppelins dominating the skies, Britain launched the unthinkable—WW1’s first aircraft carrier strike. Armed with Sopwith Camels and no way to land, this was a one-way mission into ...

When he attended the commemorations of the Allied landing in Normandy on June 6, 2024, Brigadier General Andreas Steinhaus felt "something special, as a German soldier, to be invited to that place." ...

Tucked away in a quiet corner of the Wicklow Mountains is a German military cemetery and one of Ireland's true hidden gems. The Glencree German War Cemetery in the small village of Glencree ...

Nearly eight decades after he gave his life for his nation, the partial remains of a New Jersey soldier who had been declared killed in action in 1944 have finally been identified. The Defense POW ...

She was also aided by her blond-haired, blue-eyed appearance and her fluency in German, which she learned as a child in Metz, a French city not far from the border. After joining military ...

AFTER 79 YEARS, 1st Lt. Nathan Baskind – a Jewish American soldier missing since D-Day – was identified in a German war grave and reburied, with full military honors and in accordance with the ...

The report reveals that no less than 40,000 Jewish children from Western Europe and occupied Poland have been concentrated by the Nazis in occupied France for the sole purpose of furnishing blood ...

ANTIGO – Howard William Oksterkamp, a Korean War veteran who served in the C Company, 5th Regimental Combat Team summed up Memorial Day perfectly, “All gave some, some gave all.” For over ...

German survivors rose from the wreckage like ghosts, hands shaking, mouths agape, too shocked to fight. Dwarfed by destruction, Allied soldiers look down into a blast crater made by a mine during ...