At the end of 1941 in reaction to the German invasion, Stalin ordered the formation of sapper or engineer brigades in the Red ...

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not ...

PRAGS, Italy — In a little-known chapter in the waning days of World War II, U.S. troops rescued more than 130 political ...

Robert W. Boynton, 19, a West Aurora High School graduate, was murdered after his plane was shot down in Germany in 1944.

Jeremiah P. Mahoney had been missing in action since 1945. His remains will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery in ...

A young US Army soldier from Chicago who died fighting in World War II has spent nearly 80 years as nameless remains. Now ...

With the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge a month away, Army veterans Harry Miller and Frank Cohn will take center ...

Although more than 80 years have passed since Gino D’Ambrosio went to war, there are certain memories that never faded.

Corporal Al Albrecht, and other men from the Ghost Army, stitched counterfeit patches onto their uniforms in WWII. These ...

My father, a longtime Milwaukeean, duped Nazis with a fake army during World War II– then stayed silent about his secret ...

Al Albrecht kept his stories of deception, from inflatable tanks to his loudspeaker half-track, secret from his family for ...

Ukraine's invasion of Russia's Kursk region used proven tactics from World War II's Battle of the Bulge, showing surprise ...