The year before D-Day in World War 2 the Mighty 8th Air Force went to work in the skies over Europe.In 1943 and the first half of 1944 the Mighty 8th Air Force ...

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the Army and was going through basic training, believing he would be sent ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As a podcaster and freelance journalist, Ole Nymoen admits he enjoys freedom of expression and other ...

The last European airborne operation of World War Two was "testament to the skills of the RAF crews" based at Essex and ...

Germany is putting thousands of troops in Lithuania, a NATO member that borders Russia. It's the first long-term deployment ...

On March 18, 1945, Army 1st Lt. Jack Lemaster Treadwell saw ... and other defenses designed to slow the Allied advance. The German pillboxes had pinned down Treadwell’s Fox Company of the ...

World War II saw the introduction of countless new and innovative forms of firepower. Discover the coolest facts about ...

Western Australia’s last World War II Australian Army prisoner of war veteran Arthur Leggett has died, aged 106 years old.

THE German Army has several tasks which it must fulfill simultaneously. It must resist the Anglo-American invasion. It must oppose the Russians in the east. It must keep the satellite states in line ...