According to the Texas Historical Commission, more than 50 thousand German soldiers were held at nearly 70 prisoner of war internment camps in Texas during World War II. Many were captured in southern ...

Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II. On March 18, 1945, ...

During World War II, many U.S. soldiers favored German-made binoculars over their standard-issue gear. Renowned for their superior optical clarity, durability, and precision engineering ...

During World War II, units of Ranger soldiers faced battles on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. The rangers will be ...

The German World War 2 series has been called a "masterpiece" by some viewers and has an impressive 92% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes ...

He is there for about two hours until two German soldiers notice him and they capture him.” Thankfully, Steele later escaped his captors and went on to fight in the rest of WWII.

1st Lt. Nathan B. Baskind went missing in 1944 scouting a route for his company of tank destroyers. He was officially accounted for in May.

Shortly after D-Day during World War II, French resistance fighters took 47 captured German soldiers to a small wooded area in southwest-central France.

A former German POW during World War II, Wally King of Ohio, will soon be celebrating his 100th birthday and will be marking the occasion with a return trip to Germany.

After the war, however, German documents revealed that Baskind had been captured and later died at a German Air Force hospital. His remains had been buried in a mass grave in France, alongside ...

France: Exhumation of German WWII soldiers begins 08/16/2023 August 16, 2023. Work has begun on digging up a mass grave containing the bodies of German POWs shot by resistance fighters in 1944.

By October 1944, World War II was looking pretty bleak for the Axis powers, especially in Europe. The Allies had landed in Normandy and were advancing inland in France. In Italy, they captured Rome.