Amid the hardships of the war, Christmas dinner became an annual reprieve for far-flung troops across the globe.

By December 1944, when the 28th Infantry Division reached Wiltz, Santa Claus had been MIA for years. And then . . .

Explore the harrowing battle of Peleliu in 1944, where U.S. Marines faced unimaginable conditions in their fight for survival ...

This attack was Adolf Hitler’s last attempt to turn World War II in his favor following the Allied D-Day invasion in June ...

Judy and Scott Gill of Prairie du Chien, Wis., made a special visit to Fort McCoy on Dec. 2 to deliver 26 vintage photos of Army activities around ...

In order to march on Antwerp, the German Wehrmacht needed to first capture Freyneux—and the US Army stopped it in its tracks.

As Australia and England clash in The Ashes cricket series, Australian War Memorial historians have uncovered two diaries ...

As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left ...

A German mother sheltered three lost American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge—and did the same for German soldiers hours later.

Under artillery fire in frozen Belgium, combat medics established battlefield medicine standards still used today.

A 470-kg World War II bomb was safely removed from a construction site in the wider central area of Belgrade. The US-made ...

A World War Two veteran who fought in Normandy as a teenager before becoming a prisoner of war has died at the age of 100, a ...