Twenty-six men reached the top of Germany’s military ladder in WW2—handed the field marshal’s baton by Adolf Hitler—and not ...

At a former Wehrmacht barracks site, a day of sifting through a shallow trash layer turns into a remarkably personal journey into the past: marked Luftwaffe porcelain with clear eagles and dates, ...

On the edge of a forest near a former German airfield, a loud iron signal leads to a remarkable find: a long, deactivated rifle buried in the soil, likely a Mauser or its predecessor. As the search ...

Five Western Pennsylvania men were among the more than 1,000 killed in a surprise World War II German attack on an Allied port in Italy that has become known as “The Little Pearl Harbor.” The Dec. 2, ...

The average age of a WW2 pilot was 20, so Stephen used his 24-year-old son as a model A father and son have paid tribute to the memory of Battle of Britain pilots by staging photographs which aim to ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

This weekend marks 85 years since the Luftwaffe's bombing of Stirling, which resulted in the destruction of a football stadium, injuries to several residents and damage to numerous properties.

On September 13 1940, six German bombs rained down on Buckingham Palace after a Luftwaffe plane screamed up the Mall and dropped its load over the iconic building. It marked a turning point in the ...

The impact of one heroic flight would take decades to reconcile Brian Mockenhaupt; Photographs by Dan Winters The war couldn’t last much longer. Any day now a cheer ...

A P-51 Mustang flies over Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., during a 2015 event. (A1C Philip Bryant/Air Force) For the Allied forces, the skies over Europe from 1942 to 1943 brought near ...

German engineers and scientists created some exceptional and novel military designs during WWII. Granted, not everything they created was an instant success, and they even created one fighter jet that ...