Seventy-six years have passed since Christmas Day, 1944, but the haunting memory of that lonely holiday still brings tears to the eyes of Herman Beaty. At age 18, he was thousands of miles from home, ...

After the Allied breakout from Normandy in the summer of 1944, German forces were forced into a desperate retreat. This video ...

By December 1944, the U.S. Army’s 29th Division as part of the Ninth Army was situated on the west bank of Germany’s Roer River holding the battlefront from ...

FULL, Switzerland (Reuters) - A Swiss museum is restoring a rare King Tiger tank used by Nazi Germany's 506th Heavy Tank Battalion on the Western Front and hopes it will become the second ...

The German 1944 offensive—code-named “ Wacht am Rhein ” (Watch on the Rhine)—was a reprise of the 1940 campaign, when the Germans conquered France in six weeks by punching through the ...

After the “Vera Mae” bombed Braunschwig, Germany, a city also known as Brunswick, in March 1944, the B-17 sustained damage to two engines and its hydraulic system from German fighters.

“In the fall of 1944 the Allied armies were closing in on the borders of Germany from the west, the east and the south,” Hans Christian von Baeyer narrates his story. “After five harrowing ...

On April 8, 1944, he and the crew of their B-24 Liberator "Oh My Sufferin’ Head" collided with enemy aircraft and went down over Germany with all men taken prisoner of war and many others on the ...

U.S. Air Force Sgt. Charles Mott was aboard the doomed B-17 "American Maid" bomber when it crashed in Osterby, Germany, on April 11, 1944, killing four crew members.

Father Max Josef Metzger, executed by Nazis in 1944 for promoting peace and Christian unity, was beatified Sunday in Freiburg, Germany.

Swiss museum restores German 1944 ‘King Tiger’ tank to working order By John Revill and Arnd Wiegmann Posted on March 31, 2021 ...