Ernest “Smokey” Smith crawls through the rain-drenched night, his uniform caked with mud. It is October 21, 1944, and the bad ...

This British war film that was released in the 1950s and is based on the real-life of a famed British army officer who was ...

The Colditz Story is considered a classic film within British cinema since it first appeared on the big screen in 1955, and ...

In one of WWII's most controversial pacts ... balancing act to the volunteers who willingly swore a personal oath to the ...

Just weeks before Nazi soldiers came to his house looking for him, Oscar Stein fled home — now, at 102, he’s sharing his ...

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A white granite headstone in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery bears a name that sounds American: Larry Allan Thorne.

The film's synopsis reads: "German soldiers (Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel) go from victory to ...

Margarete Schulz stepped down the gangway onto British soil, her Wehrmacht auxiliary uniform stiff with salt spray and three ...

A World War Two veteran celebrated his 100th birthday with an emotional surprise that took him straight back to his army days ...

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner is under fire for a tattoo resembling the Nazi SS Totenkopf, which he says he got ...

He single-handedly held off 250 German troops and six tanks, saving an entire company. And that was just the start of what he ...