By today's standards, Eric Fisher Wood Sr. would probably not have joined the National Guard, let alone join two armies to ...

Everyone has heard of the Battle of the Bulge,but few people have heard of The Wereth 11. The 11 African-American soldiers ...

But there were some notable exceptions to the role, some brave Jews who did choose to fight back against Nazi tyranny instead of submitting meekly to the jackboots. Among them were the heroes of the ...

The BBC war drama follows the soldier during his escape from German forces to avoid execution, but his life after the daring getaway was just as dramatic.

including destroying the fuel needed for the Germans' SS Panzer division. In 1944, a month after he and his men had entered enemy territory they were betrayed and ambushed, during the ambush 31 of ...

The group had been incarcerated since their capture by the Second SS Panzer Division while on a mission in Limoges in June 1944. Szabo was posthumously awarded the George Cross and the Croix-de ...

Hundreds of Finns fought with the German Waffen-SS in Ukraine during World War II. New research shows that many of them were convinced Nazis and may have committed atrocities. The finding has ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Plans to move the SS United States out of Philadelphia hit another snag. Okaloosa County's Tourist Development Department in Florida, which is the ship's new owner ...

After a series of delays, everything finally seemed set. The SS United States looked like it was ready to make its last voyage – from Philadelphia to the Gulf of Mexico. But wouldn’t you know ...