After the Invasion of Normandy in June of 1944 and the Allied push into mainland Europe, it was necessary to capture more German-occupied facilities to unload the supplies required for the advancing ...

CARENTAN, France — In an open 1940s military vehicle rumbling through the Normandy countryside, Staff Sgt. Nathan Selby and ...

Unlike the D-Day invasion, where gliders and paratroopers dropped directly onto ... of several days and were faced by large numbers of German mechanised infantry and tanks - including two Panzer ...

Paratroopers claimed key areas of Norway in just over a single day, which placed the German army in a commanding position to claim even more of Europe. By May 10, assaults on the Netherlands and ...

Members of the Dunkirk Veterans’ Association and their wives were heading to Duisburg in Germany in October 1967 as guests of former German paratroopers. All memories of hostility that existed ...

The Germans primarily painted spirals on the nosecones of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, two of the best German fighter planes of WW2. The spirals worked well to promote safety.

"The German flotilla has left behind a big ecological disaster that threatens us, people of Prahovo," said Velimir Trajilovic, 74, a pensioner from Prahovo who wrote a book about the German ships.