A German submarine torpedoed the "Vital de Oliveira" in July 1944, killing some 100 of the 270 crew members onboard ...

George Patton's forces as they relieved the Battered Bastards of Bastogne, who famously dug in and held on against brutal cold and German resistance at the ... Franklin Simon was among the World War ...

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the Army and was going through basic training, believing he would be sent ...

The crack and the ear-splitting blast – two in a row, then a third – rattle windows ... are all that separates them from ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy ...

Warrior, famously called "the horse the Germans couldn't kill," became a symbol of courage and loyalty during World War I.

Donnie MacRae grew up in Gairloch and was a talented tailor Scottish soldier Donnie MacRae died as a German prisoner of war during World War Two - but it was not until almost 80 years later that ...

Brazil’s ‘Vital de Oliveiro’ was attacked by Bazi Germany in the summer of 1942 (Picture: Brazilian Navy) A World War Two ship torpedoed by Adolf Hitler has been discovered along the coast ...

A World War II ship torpedoed by Adolf Hitler has been discovered along the coast of Rio De Janeiro using sonar imaging. More ...

The 1940s was a time when our entire world was at war, and people wanted their version of an escape. It makes sense that this ...

Brazil was the only South American country to send troops overseas in World War II. Throughout the Battle of the Atlantic, German U-boats patrolled Brazil’s coast, sinking some 34 vessels and ...

The war erupting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has its roots in the Rwandan genocide and the bloodiest war of the 21st ...