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

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

Waynesburg police called on the Allegheny County Bomb Squad Wednesday for help disposing of World War II-era explosives. Waynesburg Chief of Police Billy Nichols said a man reported to the police ...

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with naval and air support to land behind German lines at Anzio and to cut ...

MERRILL - Maybe losing the arm saved his life. Ralph Wehlitz can't exactly remember which day shrapnel from a German mortar shell shredded his left hand and lower arm. It was around Jan. 18, 1944 ...

“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.

More than 4,700 dangerous objects have been removed from the site of a battle that marked the start of World War II in Europe. The objects, which include explosives and other materials of military ...

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.

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

Fearless WW2 veteran who cheated death twice in one day when he survived a mortar bomb and German sniper before escaping from a prisoner of war camp with Queen Camilla's father dies aged 102.

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with naval and air support to land behind German lines at Anzio and to cut ...