Representatives of four Allied powers and vanquished Germany scrawled their names on a sheet of foolscap in a map-lined 30-by ...

On January 26, 1945, near Holtzwihr, France, 2nd Lt. Audie Murphy climbed onto a burning tank destroyer and used its .50-caliber machine gun against advancing German infantry. The official Medal of ...

Why did German soldiers continue fighting in 1944 and 1945 long after defeat was certain? This video examines how the war on the Eastern Front transformed from a conventional military struggle into a ...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Gen. George Patton’s Third Army faced little resistance as it advanced through southwest Germany into a small industrial city scarred from years of Allied bombing. The Army’s ...