Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...

Gaston Pettigrew says he can't wrap his mind around celebrating his 100th birthday next month. If it wasn't for his legs, the ...

The Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on June 28, 1919, was intended to bring peace following World War I — but instead ...

Just under 10,000 Jewish children fled to Britain from Europe from December 1938 to September 1939. Not much was known about ...

Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.

It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

On February 4th, World War II, United States Navy Veteran Joseph “Grandpa Joe” Costa celebrated his 104th birthday. To ...

Days before, on Feb. 4, the remains of 22 German sailors who died in Hot Springs ... s efforts to spread fascism in the United States in the years leading up to World War II, according to a report ...

The Great Peasants’ War was premodern Europe’s largest popular rising. Early stirrings in the southwestern corner of what is now Germany in the summer of 1524 grew to affect vast parts of the Holy ...

The Altmark was eventually cornered and there was hand-to-hand combat when British forces boarded the the ship, leaving eight German sailors killed and 10 wounded. The prisoners were rescued and ...

Days later, search teams found survivors, not from Sydney, but from the German raider Kormoran, revealing a deadly naval duel. Both ships were lost, yet not a single Australian sailor survived to ...