As WWII turned against Germany, Franco abandoned his volunteers, but thousands of Spaniards refused to quit. Renouncing their ...

Audrey Allen Ayres was initially buried near his aircraft's crash site in Germany, but after the war, his remains were transferred to the Berlin 1939–1945 War Cemetery in western Berlin, where he lies ...

March 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1836, Mexican forces captured the Alamo in San Antonio, killing the last of 187 defenders who had held out in the fortified Texas mission for 13 days.

BERLIN — The tense expression on Ilse Grassmann’s face belies the festive occasion. It’s Christmas 1944 and she is sitting at home with her three youngest children, the table bare of food or gifts.

Operation Bagration officially concluded on August 28th, 1944, having inflicted over $1.2$ million casualties on both sides ...

The World War II bomb lies on a path after divers from the Berlin police brought it ashore. A World War II bomb was discovered during construction work at the Mühlendamm lock. Michael Ukas/dpa A World ...

A 1941 graduate of Sugar Notch High School, Joseph John Miskel was one of thousands of young men and women who enlisted in the U.S. Armed Services at the outbreak of World War II. While each have ...

Martin Adler had an emotional reunion with the siblings he saved from the Nazis in an Italian village decades ago A World War II veteran has reunited with the children he saved from the Nazis in 1944.