THE WILD BLUE: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany, 1944-1945. By Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon & Schuster, $26. FLAK hit the plane ... Oil streamed out of the engine, and flame was belching ...

A 1941 graduate of Sugar Notch High School, Joseph John Miskel was one of thousands of young men and women who enlisted in the U.S. Armed Services at the outbreak of World War II. While each have ...

During World War II, Lt. William D. Pharmer Jr., a prisoner of war held in a German camp, asked that his $100 military allotment check ...

The Normandy beaches became a battleground in the struggle to free France and Europe at large from the hold of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion, which included land, sea and air forces, was ...

Kershaw, author of the definitive biography of Hitler, is unsurpassed as an analyst of the Third Reich's inner dynamics. His latest work addresses a question as significant as it is overlooked. The ...

Eighty-some years ago, thousands of men of unimaginable courage altered the direction of World War II and helped bring an end to one of the darkest periods of history. Our dad, Louis Turansky of ...

During December 1944, more men from Licking County died as the battles for Europe continued. On June 28, 1922, Marion Burkholder was born to parents John and Urie Burkholder in Perryton, Ohio. His ...

In December 1944, during World War II, American forces were surrounded in the Belgian town of Bastogne during the Battle of ...

German prisoners at Camp Carson in Colorado sing as they march to the camp laundry in 1943 German prisoners at Camp Carson in Colorado sing as they march to the camp laundry in 1943Bettmann ...