Mervyn Kersh, who also witnessed the horrors of the newly-liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, is proud of his ...

Veteran of the Great Patriotic War Ivan Lebedev marched four times in parades through the center of Moscow. Nevertheless, he ...

The tank aces of the war are a bit lesser-known but no less interesting in my opinion. The most remarkable of these tank aces was the German tank commander Michael Wittmann. During his short-lived ...

President Trump has taken some actions that do not have a comparable historical example, according to historians. President ...

When the US Army’s armored divisions arrived in North Africa, they looked unstoppable on paper - but Kasserine Pass exposed a force that was tank-heavy, rigid, and unready for modern combat. In this ...

Amid the hardships of the war, Christmas dinner became an annual reprieve for far-flung troops across the globe.

William Mee lives in Agua Fría Village and is president of the Agua Fría Village Association, which is leading a MainStreet Project to build a History, Arts and Cultural Center. Visit us at ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...

Operation Cowboy stands as one of only two documented occasions during World War II when U.S. and Wehrmacht forces fought ...

Here’s a collection of excerpts from the special columns of This Month in Fort McCoy history that highlighted history at then-Camp McCoy in September ...

Liz Nicholson, who’s running against Steele in the March Democratic primary for the seat on the board that considers property ...