Germany’s president is laying a wreath Friday at Coventry Cathedral in central England, symbolically atoning for the ...

On the 7th of May 1945, the German General Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. It meant the Second World War had come to an end, ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will be the first Western leader to visit Beijing this week as leader Xi Jinping leans toward Russia. Geopolitical tensions are driving a wedge between the two countries ...

As a 19-year-old medic, he won a Silver Star for his service during D-Day. Later, in the Korean War, he earned a Bronze Star.

The 1941 image shows a Nazi soldier pointing a gun at the head of a man kneeling at the edge of a pit filled with bodies.

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be greeted by brass bands and Christmas trees when he arrives in Britain for a ...

From tank battles on the Eastern Front to sniper duels in Hungary, these men were known for delivering terrifying results in ...

At first, disarmament was imposed on Germany. American and Russian forces seized weapons depots, sealed off factories, and ...

The total conflict of the Second World War saw battles on land, in the sky, and at sea. These are just a few Navy ships that ...

Many believe that the Churchill tank, widely used by the United Kingdom during World War II, was named for then-prime minister Winston Churchill. It was not—but there is a connection.

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...