During World War II, Nazi Germany constructed massive Flak Towers (Flak Türme) in cities like Berlin, Hamburg, and Vienna as ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) – Charleston lost a centenarian and WWII purple heart veteran on Saturday. Julian Sockman, of ...

Pvt. John Towle who, faced with a company-size enemy force with armor support and comported himself like a one-man anti-tank ...

Allied intelligence confirmed that Nazi Germany was developing “vengeance” weapons, including the V-2 long-range rocket, at Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea.

The Sturmtiger stands out as one of the most unusual and powerful vehicles of WWII. Armed with a massive 38 cm ...

About two years ago I was talking with Mike, a friend of mine I've known since Ronald Reagan was still in the White House, and he asked me a question out of left field: What if we went on a tour of ...

Robert “Bob” Leslie’s children remember seeing shrapnel emerge from the skin on their WWII-veteran father’s face multiple ...

As noted by the NavWeps website: “ This weapon was a three-barrel 12 inch (30.5 cm) mortar with the mortars mounted in series, one behind the other, with all three barrels at a fixed elevation.

The initial Fairlie Mortar failed, but from its shortcomings emerged the Hedgehog, a devastating new tool in the fight against Nazi U-boats and enemy submarines in the Pacific.

At the age of 20 Don Halvorson led a platoon of soldiers across Italy and was present when German forces surrendered at the end of WWII.

After decades of discrimination, Vernon Baker was finally recognized for his heroism during an assault on a German stronghold during WWII.