Airplanes may get all the airborne attention when discussing World War II, but military gliders also made huge contributions ...

Under Maj. William O. Darby, volunteers drawn heavily from the 34th Infantry Division trained in Scotland in demolitions, ...

This Christmas Inge Nedden will honor a father she never knew in a land thousands of miles from her native Germany. Her father, Captain Hans Langsdorff, was the commander of the German battleship Graf ...

Capt. Walter Huchthausen strove tirelessly to stop the building from collapsing and ensured it would be preserved as it is ...

More than 75 years after V-E Day—the German surrender on May 8, 1945, that ended the physical fighting on the Western Front in World War II—myths and misconceptions about the war remain. TIME asked ...

Before he would lead the U.S. 3rd Army across western Europe, Gen. George Patton spent the first half of 1944 in charge of a somewhat different command. It was the First U.S. Army Group, or FUSAG. Now ...

Lt. Martin James Monti was desperately flying an unarmed, modified P-38 Lightning photo reconnaissance plane across the Italian Front. Monti was an Army Air Forces pilot, but he wasn't on a recon ...

A small, wooden keepsake box adorned with carvings and the inscription, “Gefangenschaft Amerika 1944,” was donated in late January to the Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office for inclusion in the Fort ...