A German submarine torpedoed the "Vital de Oliveira" in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard ...

In the final days of World War II, an American soldier named Joseph "Benny" Kasser found an abandoned Japanese sword on a ...

Ophelia Bauckholt was killed in a shootout with U.S. Border Patrol agents in northern Vermont — an unlikely end to a life that held so much promise.

World War II's successful Operation Overlord took place ... Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the D-Day Beaches.

According to expert assessments commissioned by the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA), the authority which last fall, ...

Cliff Brown died last month aged 98 at his home in Swanage, Dorset. He was laid to rest today at St Mary's Church in his ...

The list of the 10 most popular movies on Netflix right now includes a new comedy from Amy Schumer and a Sandra Bullock ...

The Maschinengewehr 42, more commonly called the MG42, was Germany’s final development in its longstanding “universal machine ...

German officials want more interchangeable launcher-missile combinations, which could cut into Lockheed Martin's hold on the ...

The League is dead,” Robert Cecil solemnly declared on April 18, 1946, addressing delegates from 34 countries at the League ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...