Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

Roland Bragg was a 21-year-old paratrooper from Maine when he found himself pinned down by artillery fire near the end of World War II, out of ammunition as the Germans closed in. He hunkered down ...

Warrior, famously called "the horse the Germans couldn't kill," became a symbol of courage and loyalty during World War I.

Fighter jets, tanks, and *mules* in WWII? All Creatures Great and Small's official production historian explains.

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...

Referring to their use during World War II he recalled that much of the artillery was horse-drawn at the time. “Dogs were also used in that war,” he added. “They were loaded with explosives and sent ...

For years, scores of unexploded practice bombs dating to World War II lay buried beneath the feet of playing children in northern England. What's more, the 175 or so bombs likely would have ...

Bauckholt, her friends say, had been drawn into a cultlike group that has ... They were later identified as Bauckholt, the German national, and her traveling companion, Teresa Youngblut.