What if just a handful of battles truly determined the outcome of World War II? While the war stretched across years and continents, a select group of engagements had an outsized impact, shifting ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.

The Battle of Kursk occurred in July 1943 around the Soviet city of Kursk in western Russia, as Germany launched Operation Citadel, Hitler’s response to his devastating defeat by the Soviet Red Army ...

I’ve long been intrigued at mentions of a sunken German U-boat explored by divers in Rhode Island waters. But I’d never known ...

An international effort to preserve a European World War II battlefield that saw some of the most brutal fighting of war has a Brownsville connection. Lt. Col. Edwin Rusteberg, born and raised ...

D P H.C.GOV. MEANWHILE, A NEW BOOK FROM AN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA AUTHOR IS TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT AN OFTEN FORGOTTEN BATTLE FROM WORLD WAR TWO. ONE, HISTORIANS SAY PLAYED A CRITICAL ROLE DURING THE ...