Airplanes may get all the airborne attention when discussing World War II, but military gliders also made huge contributions ...

American troops were facing an impossible enemy—German heavy armor like the Panther and Tiger. But in the late days of WWII, ...

“There is a lot of baggage in doing a German impression,” says Dave Fornell, of Elgin, a lead organizer of Rockford World War II Days. “My elevator pitch on why I do German has to do with their ...

HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black ...

Not too far away is a massive MP3 concrete tower, a German naval range-finding position, which was built by forced laborers ...

KLESSIN, Germany — Thomas Siepert looks across the verdant grain field, which glows in the sun after a spring thunderstorm, with windmills slowly churning in the distance. Wild boar piglets trundle ...

The body of a German soldier who died in World War II has been found buried in the Netherlands by a person searching through fields with a metal detector. The detectorist found the body in the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a mass grave of Nazi soldiers from World War II in Poland that includes a number of artifacts, including weapons, medals and tools. The grave was discovered in the ...

Few things spark the imagination like a good old treasure hunt, and there's a big one underway in the Netherlands this week. Officials in the European country have published an old map, believed to ...

05:04, Thu, Oct 2, 2025 Updated: 05:04, Thu, Oct 2, 2025 In the dying days of the Second World War, German forces were in full retreat as the Russians approached from the East and British and American ...