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.

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Eighty years since the end of World War II, the British are recalling many battles fought on the path to victory. Yet one ...

Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and ...

Eighty years after the lights were plugged into a humming Army generator, the spirit of the “greatest celebration in American ...

Eighty years ago, the world won a great victory in the war against fascism. At the cost of tens of millions of lives, ...

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Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout tells the story of Corporal Carroll Lee Hupp of Licking County and the Battle of ...

When you think about more recent military history, it’s unsurprising that World War II is the centerpiece of most ...