Trump tells German leader D-Day ‘was not a pleasant day for you’ as chancellor is forced to school him on Nazis. German leader forced to correct president that end of Second World War was part ...

President Donald Trump called D-Day 'not a pleasant day for you,' in a comment that associated German Chancellor Merz with the German forces fending off the Allied invasion.

More than 20,000 residents evacuated a German city after three U.S. WWII bombs were discovered in Cologne, requiring hours of careful diffusion work before people could return to their homes.

On June 4, 1944, the last of German occupiers fled Rome ahead of the advancing U.S. 9th Army.

Finding bombs from WW2 is not unusual in German cities such as Cologne and Berlin, but these bombs were particularly large. Image source, Reuters. Image caption, ...

06/04/2025 June 4, 2025. Buildings across the center of the western city of Cologne were evacuated after the discovery of three World War II bombs. Some 20,000 people had been under evacuation orders.

At 9am, two vans and three cars arrived, all with German number plates. Inside, police - some in camouflage uniforms - were ready to begin the search.

Today, it’s impossible to think of the American military without its customary camouflage uniforms. This tradition hearkens back to World War II, where island-hopping U.S. Marines in the Pacific ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII ...