Lt. j.g. John Koelsch's most notable sortie ultimately cost him his life, but through his actions, the pilot he risked his ...

The remains of Pfc. Joseph R. Travers, a Massachusetts soldier missing since the Korean War, have been identified and will be returned to Taunton for burial.

A U.S. Army soldier who went missing in action during World War II in 1944 has now been accounted for, more than 70 years ...

From 1943 through 1946, more than 3,400 prisoners (including 15 Nazi generals) were processed at Fort Hunt, according to ...

Three U.S. airmen disappeared after bailing out of a burning B-17 over Germany 80 years ago. An Offutt recovery team ...

Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror ...

Among the others who lost their lives were Poles, Roma and Russian prisoners of war. By the time the Red Army cautiously entered Auschwitz on 27 January 1945, only about 7,000 prisoners remained.

The World War II extermination of Europe's Jews by Nazi Germany began after the invasion of Poland in 1939 and increased in scale with the creation of death camps.

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, members of the last generation of Nazi concentration camp ...

Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in May and its leaders going on trial for war crimes in November.

The home of the death camp’s wartime commandant, Rudolf Höss, which was the subject of the Oscar-winning movie “The Zone of ...