CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — One of Charleston’s centenarians and world war 2 heroes passed away over the weekend. A husband, ...

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 ...

During the brutal battles of 1941–1942 on the Eastern Front, German infantry faced a terrifying challenge: the Soviet T-34 ...

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 ...

“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.

Nazi Submariners Were Right to Fear the World War II Hedgehog Mortar. March 24, 2025. By ... weapons of World War II, ... to their video titled “The Super Weapon that Turned German U-Boats into ...

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.

In 1997, after being denied the award for more than 50 years due to discrimination, 1st Lt. Vernon Baker finally received a Medal of Honor for his heroism during World War II, making him one of ...

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 ...