When Reed Peggram met Arne Hauptmann in Paris in 1939, neither could have imagined their love would carry them through imprisonment, escape, and survival behind enemy lines in wartime Italy.
This episode follows the effort to revive a WW2 German DKW NZ 350 motorcycle and a battle worn Kubelwagen for an upcoming film project, from chasing weak spark and blocked fuel lines to stripping and ...
Artifacts belonging to Canadian soldiers have been recovered from a former wartime position in Germany, including cap insignias and personal effects preserved underground for eight decades. The ...
On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...
Minnesota native and World War II veteran Les Schrenk​ died earlier this week. He was 102 years old.
To this day, there has only been one recorded instance of submarine-on-submarine warfare during WWII. The German Navy's destroyed U-864 is toxic to this day.
A Nebraska World War II veteran is continuing his legacy of service even after his death. Dale Steele, 100, of Pierce, is now ...
The Minneapolis Institute of Art is opening "Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin." ...
Royal Marine veteran Joseph Douglas Cheshire, who has just turned 102, got parental consent and joined just after his 17th ...
NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with Sadeqa Johnson about her new novel THE KEEPER OF LOST CHILDREN and discovering the story of mixed-race children who were left in German orphanages following World War II.
Spotty Dawgs Antiques, in Longtown, have a rare German WWII M42 Combat Helmet, with "condition on it's side" for sale. The helmet was retrieved from the ground at Demyansk on the ...
World War II accelerated weapons innovation at an unprecedented pace. As global conflict intensified, the United States rapidly expanded and refined its arsenal, adapting existing designs while ...