France's liberation in 1944 brought joyous freedom but also a brutal 'Wild Purge.' Women accused of intimacy with German soldiers faced public humilia ...

A central Pennsylvania WWll veteran has joined the ranks of such notables as Gen. George Patton, President Dwight Eisenhower, ...

In this episode, we step into August 1944 as Allied forces launch Operation Dragoon, the massive but often overlooked invasion of southern France. We trace how the plan evolved from Operation Anvil, ...

As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a decorated veteran, he was forbidden to vote as a Native American.

Eighty years after a traffic accident in postwar Germany fatally injured Gen. George S. Patton Jr., a small group gathered at ...

PARIS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Charles Norman Shay, a Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed off the Normandy coast on D-Day and helped save lives, died at age 101 on ...

Arguably, the Bréguet Br.1050 Alizé (French: “Tradewind”) does not match the spectacularly appealing ugliness of its British ...

Eighty years ago today, German artillery opened fire on an inexperienced American division that had been at the front for ...

I'm not writing this to try and convince a Zionist to not be a Zionist, or to get a fence sitter off the white picket. Instead, I want to explain to those ...

Explore the story of the SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc, a French four-engine airliner whose first flight on December 15, 1939, ...

‘He had one illusion – France; and one disillusion – mankind, including Frenchmen.’ John Maynard Keynes’s description of the political philosophy of Georges Clemenceau, who led France through the end ...