Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...

Under artillery fire in frozen Belgium, combat medics established battlefield medicine standards still used today.

Archaeologists made an “incredibly rare” find Wednesday in Belgium when they uncovered the remains of soldiers and horses who died in the 1815 Battle of Waterloo. The discovery was made by the team ...

In the spring of 1944, Fred Nungesser graduated from St. Michael’s High School in Union City. A little more than six months later he was fighting the Nazis, subfreezing temperatures and long odds ...

In December 1944, a battle began in the densely forested Ardennes region of eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. It started with a surprise counteroffensive launched by Nazi Germany at the Allied ...

A tour led by an 88-year-old guide in Bastogne, Belgium, scene of a critical battle of World War II, offers a snapshot into the way President Trump’s second term is shifting perceptions of America ...

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What kind of impact can lower-level organizations have on a grander scale? Learning this was the key takeaway for the 10 Soldiers from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 12th Combat Aviation ...

Facing determined German troops, soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion scaled this height at a high cost in men in 1944 during World War II. At first it might sound like Point du Hoc on ...