In early 1945, as the Third Reich crumbled and Soviet forces pushed relentlessly westward, Germany launched one of its last ...

World War: FAR EASTERN FRONT: The Battle of Rice. 4 minute read. TIME. September 22, 1941 12:00 AM GMT-4. All last week men killed each other in northeastern Hunan.

The Luftwaffe, once feared as the world’s most advanced air force, played a pivotal role in Germany’s early victories in ...

Soviet infantry in combat during the Battle of Kursk in 1943 in Russia. It was World War II battle between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front fought from July 5 till August 23, 1943.

Last week, President Trump announced plans to officially designate May 8, the date when the Germans signed the articles of surrender to end World War II in Europe, as “Victory Day.” He further ...

When we turn attention to World War I and its fighting, our thoughts go to the Western Front, to trenches and barbed wire and men going “over the top” to near-certain death. Battles at Verdun ...

Trump also announced he would rename Victory in Europe Day, which is commemorated on May 8, to “Victory in World War II Day” to recognize that “we did more than any other Country, by far, in ...

Bulldozers come first. This slogan crystallizes the role that engineering and construction played in World War II, where combatants were far more mobile than in previous conflicts.

Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe and very nearly achieved that goal in World War II. In fact, not since Napoleon did any one country control so much of the continent. Here ...

Bell, from the World War II museum, said the Soviets prepared a series of defensive lines, dug 3,000 miles of anti-tank ditches and laid 400,000 land mines to defend the bulge, while putting 75% ...