Nate Ericson, a Lawrence resident who turned 102 this month, says he thinks people need a reminder of what he learned eight decades ago in the Battle of the Bulge: "War is hell." ...

In June 1944, the United States Navy did something it had not attempted since the War of 1812. American sailors boarded and ...

In December 1944 during World War II, the German army launched a surprise offensive that threatened to split the Allied ...

About 1.2 million Russian troops have been killed, wounded or are missing since its invasion of Ukraine almost four years ago, a rate of casualties for a major military power not seen since World War ...

January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of the Nazi German death camps.

On Dec. 16 1944, German artillery opened fire on an inexperienced American division that had been at the front for less than a week. Within 72 hours, two entire regiments of the 106th Infantry ...

MANNHEIM, Germany – Eighty years after his death, the legacy of Gen. George S. Patton Jr. endures, yet his life was cut short not by a final, glorious battle, but by a mundane traffic accident on a ...

Note: My annual Veterans Day tribute to my parents and the Greatest Generation. Never forget! Standing on Piermont Pier at the Camp Shanks Memorial Plaque, I am transported to March 1, 1944. My father ...

In the final days of World War II, one name echoed through the chaos of Hitler’s bunker — Felix Steiner. Once a respected German general and commander of the Waffen-SS Wiking Division, Steiner became ...

German General Major Christian Freuding, left, who is in charge of the German Bundeswehr’s (army) “Situation Command Ukraine” photographed on May 9 shaking hands with the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi commander ...

Philadelphia and Oxford: Casemate, 2023. Pp. x, 177. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $37.95 / £25.00. ISBN:1636243126 Senior Leadership in the Italian Campaign Andrew Sangster and Pier Paolo ...