Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...

A German mother sheltered three lost American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge—and did the same for German soldiers hours later.

By December 1944, when the 28th Infantry Division reached Wiltz, Santa Claus had been MIA for years. And then . . .

In the forests of Germany, a day of metal detecting quickly turns special as the team uncovers a soldier’s mirror, a complete German gas mask canister and a worn Wehrmacht rank pip that once sat on a ...

Deep in the German woods, a team of relic hunters returns to a former frontline and almost immediately uncovers a remarkably well-preserved German dog tag, complete with blood type and unit markings ...

As America soon celebrates its 250th anniversary, it would be wise to look back to understand what allowed ait to become ...

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

In small town America, boys with absent heads of households were taken under the wing of World War I veterans from such ...

In order to march on Antwerp, the German Wehrmacht needed to first capture Freyneux—and the US Army stopped it in its tracks.

Christmas includes the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle fought by the United States. The ...

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