Swedish power metal veterans and war aficionados Sabaton have been providing comprehensive history lessons through their music for over a decade. The Last Stand will serve as their eighth studio ...

John Damcott was 22 years old when he was killed by a German bullet in 1918. Today he lies among 14,246 other graves at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in France. He grew up in Clymer. The ...

This map shows movements of units trying to rescue the “Lost Battalion” during World War II in France. — Photo courtesy of the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center An exhibit of “The Rescue of the Lost ...

Even 65 years later, Astro Tortolano thinks almost daily of his struggle to survive in the Vosges Mountains of northern France in October 1944. Surrounded by German soldiers after stumbling into a ...

Charles Whittlesey faithfully followed orders, moving his battalion into a ravine against heavily fortified German troops in what would be the last gasp of the Great War. The only problem: The units ...

In London's Hyde Park, there's a heartbreaking series of sculptures called the Animals in War Memorial — heavily laden bronze donkeys struggling through a gap in an enormous curved wall. It honors ...

FRANCE—Oct. 8, 2018, was the 100th anniversary of the relief of “The Lost Battalion.” Some 550 American soldiers fighting in the heavily forested and rough terrain of the Argonne Forest in northeast ...

Before they were known as the “Lost Battalion,” the 1st Battalion was a part of the 36th Infantry Division fighting in Europe during World War II. After a bungled strategic decision sent them deep ...