In March 1944, Soviet forces threatened to cut vital German supply routes by surrounding the fortress town of Kovel. To ...

In early 1944, as the siege of Leningrad collapses, retreating German forces are driven into a narrow corridor leading to ...

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

The date of Operation Overlord was among the most closely guarded secrets of the war. Even many senior officers were ...

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

Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...

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.

Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout continues to look at those from Licking County who lost their lives in World War ...

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 ...

In August 1944, while the renowned physicist Albert Einstein was living in comfort and safety in his adopted America, his first cousin Robert was hiding out in the woods in Nazi-occupied Italy. As a ...

Polvado was killed in action on Dec. 12, 1944, in Pachten, Germany.