Day commenced. The largest amphibious operation in history marked the start of the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. That ...

The Battle of Kasserine Pass in February 1943 was the first significant engagement between German and U.S. forces in World ...

The mission, called Operation Greenup, was carried out by two Jewish immigrants from Brooklyn and one Nazi deserter, historians said.

Seven hundred paratroopers jumped from a fleet of historic airplanes during a WWII commemoration ceremony in my area last ...

Approximately 100 U.S. Army Soldiers from European-based units and two contiguous U.S.-based units participated in ...

After the Invasion of Normandy in June of 1944 and the Allied push into mainland Europe, it was necessary to capture more German-occupied facilities to unload the supplies required for the advancing ...

It was previously part of a £50m Conservative plan to house 2,000 migrants at the site - later reduced to 800 - which was ...

This is the story of the bridge everyone forgets about when discussing Operation Market Garden, the first bridge that was[...

At 96, Bob Fleak zipped up his old Army flight suit and climbed into a World War II-era biplane, eager to return to the skies ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

I first went to Normandy in 1974. I was a 27-year-old news photographer shooting the French presidential election, and my ...