German artillery tactics during World War II are often overlooked in military history, with very little written about how ...

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

World War II stands as one of the most important events in human history. ... Similar to earlier campaigns, the German military employed Blitzkrieg tactics which allowed for initial success.

The German pillboxes had pinned down Treadwell’s Fox Company of the 180th Infantry, 54th Infantry Division, with intermittent artillery barrages and continuous machine gun and sniper fire for hours.

The USS Borie landed on the German submarine U-405's foredeck during World War II, locking the ships together for an incredibly fraught 10 minutes of what would become an hourlong engagement ...

Here 24/7 Wall St. is taking a closer look at some of the biggest battles of the conflict. To identify the major World War II battles with the most troops, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed WWII battles from ...

Germany will station 5,000 troops in Lithuania by 2027, marking its first permanent foreign deployment since WWII. The deployment will strengthen NATO’s eastern flank and deter Russian aggression.

Massive WWII bomb discovered and defused in German city hosting US military By . ... Germany, following the discovery of an approximately 550-pound World War II bomb during excavation work, ...

The first of 15,500 paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st U.S. Airborne are dropped near Carentan. They battle German forces and clear exits for U.S. infantry landing on Utah Beach.

The Germans primarily painted spirals on the nosecones of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, two of the best German fighter planes of WW2.The spirals worked well to promote safety.