The Sturmtiger stands out as one of the most unusual and powerful vehicles of WWII. Armed with a massive 38 cm ...

Robert “Bob” Leslie’s children remember seeing shrapnel emerge from the skin on their WWII-veteran father’s face multiple ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday declared 174 new martyrs, including 50 French Catholics who died in Nazi concentration camps during ...

A Wichita Falls Times article from June 1, 1911, reported the main building would be 100 by 240 feet with “a force of men raising the steel upright columns.” The company also set aside 40 acres around ...

A ‘controlled explosion’ was carried out on Saturday morning. A Cleveland Police spokesperson said: “Police were alerted to a potential World War II mortar on the seafront in Marske yesterday, Friday ...

He was buried June 27, 1944, at La Cambe, and his personal items were sent home to his family, including a rosary and crucifix, worn family photographs and a mortar firing table.

A student brought a World War II-era mortar round on a school bus on Wednesday, according to police in Cumberland County.Silver Spring Township police said officers were notified shortly before ...

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — A State Police hazardous and explosive team was alerted Wednesday after a 17-year-old student in Cumberland County brought a World War II mortar on a school bus.

But finding a 50mm French mortar dating to World War II hidden in your backyard is something else entirely. That’s what happened to Hunter Vap, a Marine veteran and resident of Orange, Virginia.

A member of the explosive ordnance disposal team from the Marine Corps Base in Quantico disassmbles a 50 millimeter French mortar found in an Orange County yard, Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

WW2 veteran 'amazed' to be awarded highest honour. ... coming under mortar fire, ... The presentation will be made by the French military attaché.

WW2 veteran 'amazed' to be awarded highest honour. ... coming under mortar fire, ... The presentation will be made by the French military attaché. Image source, Contributed.