NEW YORK — Retired Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard, a paratroop officer who suggested the famously defiant answer “Nuts!” to a German demand for surrender during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge, has died. He ...

It only takes the opening notes of the theme tune to 1963 classic film The Great Escape for most people to conjure up images of the lives of prisoners of wars – and their escapes – during World War II ...

Officials have accounted for the remains of a United States Army soldier from Alabama who was killed during World War II — eight decades after a German officer handed over his identification tags. U.S ...

Why so many German officers and Nazi officials fled to Argentina after World War II, escaping justice and building new lives in South America. This eye-opening video explores the escape routes, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former hospital building at the Crossville POW camp at the Clyde York 4-H Center. Photograph courtesy of 'Tennessee History for ...

A forest dump site yields personal military items including combs, photo paper, gas-mask lens inserts, and a German officer’s cap wreath. Vehicle tags, porcelain fragments, and uniform details help ...

Before dawn on June 22, 1941, German bombers began to rain destruction down on a swath of Soviet cities from Leningrad to Sevastopol. It was the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the largest military ...