The Halifax aircrew had the misfortune that Lt. Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, Germany’s most successful night-fighter of WWII mounted two attacks from the rear, setting the port wing on fire and sending ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the forests of Belgium and the hills of Italy, U.S. tank destroyers went head-to-head with Germany’s deadliest armor. The ...