What was meant to be a swift D-Day objective became a two-month meat grinder. In the ruins of the medieval city of Caen, ...

What was supposed to fall on D-Day took seven weeks and tens of thousands of casualties to secure. The battle for Caen became ...

Despite heavy artillery support, the regiment suffered 2,678 casualties while advancing just 6,000 yards during 18 continuous ...

Now 101, Shay is one of a dwindling number of living D-Day vets. Over the years, he has been a fixture at annual remembrance ceremonies commemorating the June 6, 1944, Allied assault on the beaches of ...

The German Navy's U-boat campaign in the Battle of the Atlantic could have been far more effective if it was conducted in a ...

A holiday tradition returns to the Military Aviation Museum in Pungo this weekend, and visitors will also find a new ...

Only six of 7,000 'cricket clickers' issued for hero US paratroopers storming Nazi-occupied France on D-Day are known to ...

Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline ...

When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian ...

The scholar has published ‘Brothers in Arms,’ tracking the campaign of a British armored regiment throughout World War II ...

Sometime in November 2025, the little French town of Gousenou, not far from the coastal city of Brest, is honoring a group of American soldiers who died during the battle ...

The Great Escaper” and its themes of facing mortality are even more poignant given its stars’ end-of-their-career stations.