In the summer of 1944, the U.S. Army faced a crisis no battlefield victory could solve: its advance across France was ...

At the beginning of 1944 six divisions of the German Army Group South, some 56,000 men, were encircled by the Russian Army.

Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death, entered Block 11 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp on a cold, wet afternoon in October 1944.

In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...

The last Nazis on Greenland were captured in October 1944, when American soldiers raided a hidden German weather station on ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

Long before audiences came to know James Doohan as the warm, witty miracle worker of the Star Trek engine room, he was a young Canadian officer facing something far more real than sci-fi. To ...

One hundred seventy-seven B-24 Liberators took off from Libya on August 1, 1943, bound for the Romanian oil refineries at ...

The Information Technology Laboratory at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center unveiled a new supercomputer ...

According to the Saxony State Command, the 5th Operations Company with around 100 soldiers will be deployed to the state for the operation. View on euronews ...

What happened during the Battle of the Bulge? And why did Hitler launch the offensive? Join SKY History as we delve into ...

The film follows the story of a group of men who try to escape German camp Stalag Luft III, in Sagan, Poland(now called Żagań ...