When the German Sixth Army officially surrendered at Stalingrad on February 2, 1943, the battle was declared over, but for ...

Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...

In France, between 1941 and 1945, around 200,000 children are estimated to have been born from a union between a French woman ...

German soldiers entered World War II believing British troops were weak and unwilling to fight. Through battles from Dunkirk to Normandy, that belief was tested, challenged, and ultimately overturned.

Tanks from the 4th Armored Division, 7th Army drive through Nuremberg after the surrender of German forces on April 20, 1945. Eight decades ago, U.S. Army soldiers raised the American flag in the ...