Dwight Eisenhower had reached his decision. And when Ike put his foot down, that was the end of things. After all, as the ...

In October 1944, US forces fought into Aachen, the first major city inside Germany to come under American ground assault. West Wall fortifications, resilient stone buildings, and maze-like streets ...

How reporter Martha Gellhorn snuck into Normandy, broke Army rules and became the only woman journalist to land on D-Day.

Martha Gellhorn worked alongside medics recovering wounded GIs and ferrying them back across the English Channel. Once in port, she jumped ship and wrote what she had seen as the ...

Often overlooked by Western military historians, the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 was an early sign of the brutal urban combat ...

Revisit the Double V Campaign and the segregated WWII U.S. Army, where Black troops fought fascism abroad while facing racism at home.

Sara Pennypacker’s novel for young readers tells the story of a boy awakening to courage in Nazi-occupied France.

1960 — Rookie Wilt Chamberlain scores a playoff record 53 points in the Philadelphia’s 132-112 triumph over the Syracuse Nationals to send the Warriors to the Eastern Division finals against the ...

August 1944 became Covington County’s deadliest WWII month, as nine local soldiers and airmen—including two Omaha Beach ...

Beyond, up a gentle slope, looms Russia. Finns used to drive across here to fill up on half-price gasoline. That was before ...

Thousands of years of bagpipe history have spawned countless fantastical tales, including Scottish faeries infusing highland players and their instruments with magic; warriors wielding the haunting, ...

AFTER THE BOMBING of Pearl Harbor, second-generation Japanese American soldiers signed up to fight for the United States in World War II even as their A new exhibit at San Francisco’s Presidio honors ...