A chance discovery led officials in northern England to uncover more than 100 practice bombs from World War II buried underneath a playground.

Roland Bragg was a 21-year-old paratrooper from Maine when he found himself pinned down by artillery fire near the end of World War II, out of ammunition as the Germans closed in. He hunkered down ...

The Maschinengewehr 42, more commonly called the MG42, was Germany’s final development in its longstanding “universal machine ...