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As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, World War II survivors reflect on ...

The characteristic low growl of a German V-1 missile terrified people across England and Belgium. Here's what made their ...

During the Second World War, atrocities and horrors took place all over Europe as country after country fell to the ...

The spirals on the noses of German fighter planes in World War II weren't a fashion statement. They had some very practical ...

Just days after Germany invaded Poland, French fighter pilots intercepted and shot down one of the Luftwaffe’s rising stars - ...

A new film details the intervention of six American GIs who risked their lives 80 years ago to save Rothenburg ob der Tauber ...

The U.S. Army’s 90th Infantry Division arrived at Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany on April 23, 1945. Hundreds ...