John Wardell is one of just five remaining Army Rangers out of 6,500 in World War II, and he has been honored with a ...

Nicknamed the “Bloody Bucket” by the Germans, the 28th Infantry Division played a major role during the Battle of the Bulge.

On June 4, 1944, the last of German occupiers fled Rome ahead of the advancing U.S. 9th Army.

LST-314 was sunk by German motor torpedo boats on June 9, 1944. ... Two other brothers served in the military during World War II, and another brother and sister worked in the Charleston Navy Yard.

Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

The role played by Coast Guard personnel who crewed the Higgins boats was critical to the success of the D-Day landings in gaining a foothold in France to begin the liberation of Europe from the ...

Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division landed near there early on the morning of June 6, 1944. They had to hold the position ... OF D-DAY One of those was Iowa-born 31-year-old U.S. Army Staff ...

Donald Trump made the deranged comment in a meeting with the German ... when U.S. troops landed on the beaches in Normandy during World War II, on June 6, 1944. The military operation marked a ...

June 6, 1944. D-Day. Allied forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on France in the largest ever military invasion in history. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in charge of ...

German leaders intend to ramp up defense spending and build the most powerful armed forces in Europe, but shadows of World ...

In the final days of World War II, U.S. and German soldiers fought side by side—not against each other, but against the SS. At a remote fortress in the Austrian Alps, known as Itter Castle, a strange ...

Created by the Allies 10 years after World War II to help defend Western Europe, the German army was designed to fight as little as possible. Today, Berlin wants to make it 'fit for war,' but the ...