These battleships were among the finest ever engineered—and are rightly sources of great national pride from an otherwise ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much ...

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

Day, which marked the beginning of the end of WWII, are taking place against a backdrop of transatlantic uncertainty. Nevertheless, when Deutsche Welle’s Lisa Bryant visited the village of Baupte in ...

The largest artifact in the touring exhibition Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away., currently on display at the ROM in ...

Marthe Cohn, a French Jewish woman who served as a spy ... countless lives of Allied soldiers beyond enemy lines in World War II. Cohn received the Croix de Guerre, the Médaille Militaire ...

He was on the road between St. Laurent and St. Lo out front with a mine detector when he was killed by machine gun fire. He ...

In line with the principal ceremony at Place de l’Étoile in Paris, presided by French President Emmanuel Macron, the Consulate joined French diplomatic missions elsewhere to mark the ...

Building movers doing work at Fort McCoy proved that a fourth time can be a charm, too, as they successfully moved a fourth World War II-era barracks April 16 at Fort McCoy. Three World War II-era ...

encountering manned SS barracks and danger along the way. He was shot at. Had artillery screaming overhead at times. Lynch was still a teenager. But this was World War II. Democracy was at stake ...

This is the moment World War II barracks were loaded onto a truck to be moved to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. Contractors moved an army building from the 1600 block on March 18, shifting it from its ...