During the Second World War, there were multiple people from Allied countries who deserted to the Axis powers. Actually, there are too many to name them all. Some of them ended up working propaganda ...

THE WILD BLUE: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany, 1944-1945. By Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon & Schuster, $26. FLAK hit the plane ... Oil streamed out of the engine, and flame was belching ...

August 1944 became Covington County’s deadliest WWII month, as nine local soldiers and airmen—including two Omaha Beach veterans—were lost in fighting from Normandy to the German-Swiss border.

A 1941 graduate of Sugar Notch High School, Joseph John Miskel was one of thousands of young men and women who enlisted in the U.S. Armed Services at the outbreak of World War II. While each have ...

During World War II, Lt. William D. Pharmer Jr., a prisoner of war held in a German camp, asked that his $100 military allotment check ...

Kershaw, author of the definitive biography of Hitler, is unsurpassed as an analyst of the Third Reich's inner dynamics. His latest work addresses a question as significant as it is overlooked. The ...

German engineers and scientists created some exceptional and novel military designs during WWII. Granted, not everything they created was an instant success, and they even created one fighter jet that ...

Haunted by the ghosts of WWI and an uncertain Communist future, Allied forces decided to cover all their bases. American troops celebrate Germany's first unconditional surrender effective May 8, 1945.

The Greek Culture Ministry purchased the archive after a private collector attempted to sell the material online. Athens has ...