At higher echelons, battalion and division-level comparisons reveal contrasts in logistics, unit composition, and strategic deployment. West German battalions typically included substantial staff and ...

Equipment remnants linked to a German Panzer Division were recovered at an Eastern Front battlefield dating to the final Soviet offensives of 1944–45. Armored formations that once formed the core of ...

Next year, humankind would be commemorating 80 years since the start of the biggest global conflict the world has ever seen. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany forces invaded Poland from the West, ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: With seventy years of hindsight, it is easy to assume that by June 1944, the Third Reich was doomed. Russian armies were relentlessly advancing from the East; ...

The Battle of the Bulge lasted for 40 days and ended in January 1945. Less than six months later, Hitler would be dead and the Thousand Year Reich toppled. Seventy years ago, out of the fog and icy ...

JIMMY Graham, who has died aged 98, was an RAF veteran who saw distinguished service in Bomber Command during the Second World War. He flew on 36 hazardous missions as a tail gunner with 576 Squadron ...