As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

In August 1944, the shattered remnants of the fanatical 12th SS Panzer Division faced Operation Totalize, the massive Allied ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned World War II places that the world forgot.

MOSES LAKE — Time passes and with that comes the loss of people, but this does not mean that the stories those people tell ...

American soldiers dug foxholes into the ridgeline at Djebel Chambi. They had only arrived in North Africa a few weeks ago and faced light resistance from Vichy French troops. The infamous Afrika Korps ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kurth / Wikimedia Commons (Kurth / Wikimedia Commons) The Panzer tank family was at the heart of German operations throughout ...

The term “Panzer” refers to a series of German tanks, the Panzer I through Panzer IV early in the war, followed by heavier combatants such as the Panther and Tiger Early Panzer IIIs carried 37–50mm ...

January 12, 1945. German Panzer crews thought they were safe at 2,100 meters. They were wrong. This is the story of the SU-100 – the classified Soviet tank destroyer that turned the tide of the ...

It was the end of the line for the Allies. By May 20, 1940, German Panzer divisions had thundered into Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme River, slicing through Allied lines and corralling the troops ...

When most people today hear the word "bumblebee," they're prone to think of the black and yellow Autobot Camaro from the "Transformers" films and animated series. The particular Nazi bumblebee we're ...

The fighting phase of the war in the Netherlands was a short one. Some 300,000 men has been mobilised on August 28, 1939 and the long-awaited invasion took place on May 10, 1940. On May 14 the ...