As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with naval and air support to land behind German lines at Anzio and to cut off ...

There isn't much that spurs the advancement of technology like war. And during no conflict in human history was that more true than World War II. The German military is notorious for the machinery ...

Immediately after World War II, the British and Danish armies forced 2,000 German POWs to remove 1.5 million landmines from the beaches of Denmark, where the Nazis had planted the explosives in ...

The British HMS Trooper submarine was lost in 1943 with 64 men on board. A Greek-based underwater recovery team located the submarine 81 years later, finding it torn into three sections by a German ...

The November moon—moon of the ancient Saxon “Blood Month”—swelled to full last week,* and with it grew the grimness of World War II at sea. Evidently Germany’s submarine campaign had failed. She now ...

When Melvin Kaminsky arrived in Europe with a field artillery unit, he thought he would be a radio operator. In need of combat engineers, though, the Army noticed the young private's military ...