Facing determined German troops, soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion scaled this height at a high cost in men in ...

As the war closed in, Hitler’s last army dug in at one final, doomed location. Arab world reacts to Israel's strikes on Iran ...

It is difficult to imagine the terror onboard the U.S.S. Tang on Oct. 24, 1944. The submarine was in the Taiwan Strait off the coast of China that day when it was struck by a circular run of its own ...

Although World War II was not yet over — Japan continued ... The 740th Tank Battalion fought its way across the treacherous Siegfried Line — a lengthy German defensive barrier several miles ...

Yet the celebrated classical musician was still feted after World War II as one of the greatest conductors ... In 1908, his son Siegfried Wagner, and later his daughter-in-law Winifred Wagner ...

While an Army band played on Saturday, soldiers in vintage World War II uniforms boarded an amphibious ... and continue their advance towards the Siegfried Line. By March 1945, all that remained ...

Their target, the German Siegfried Line which blocked the way into Nazi Germany, was filled with bunkers, pill boxes, guns, mines and tank obstacles. The battle was fought at great cost and ...

What was the World War II experience of James Alfred (“Alf ... Nicholas Ralph as James Herriot and Samuel West as Siegfried Farnon, the character inspired by Alf Wight's real-life veterinary ...

His West Point class played a crucial role in World War II as America fought bloody campaigns ... On Dec. 16, his unit was fighting at the Siegfried Line in Germany when the Battle of the Bulge ...

When that Allied “Blitzkrieg in Reverse” brought the European war’s front line to Germany’s doorstep ... Now bent with age, a dwindling number of WWII veterans joined a new generation ...

Eighty years ago today, the German army launched its last major offensive on the Western Front during World War II. It centered ... they went up against the Siegfried Line or the German West ...