During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

During World War II, German soldiers believed American troops were weak and inexperienced. This film follows how that belief ...

Baskind was buried under a Star of David with full military honors at the Normandy American Cemetery in France this week. Julien Nguyen-Kim / American Battle Monuments Commission An American Jewish ...

At 10:59 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, a German machine gun crew fired a burst of rounds at approaching Americans. One bullet struck 23-year-old Pvt. Henry Gunther in the left temple. He died instantly.

American tanks in World War II were generally inferior to their German counterparts. German tanks boasted better armor protection and more firepower. But armor and lethality don’t tell the whole story ...