The U.S. Eighth Air Force launched its bombing campaign against Nazi Germany, one of the largest, most important and most devastating strategic initiatives in the annals of warfare, on this day in ...

On July 30, 1943, during a massive U.S. raid over Germany involving 186 B-17 Flying Fortresses and 123 P-47 Thunderbolts, the ...

FOR at least ten years after this war all belligerents, victors as well as vanquished, will be so weakened from loss of life, blood, and wealth that a large-scale reopening of hostilities is unlikely.

A P-38 Lighting takes off from an English base, Dec. 3, 1942. Lt. William W. Shank was flying a similar aircraft when he was shot down over Germany in 1943. (AP Photo) HARRISONBURG, Va. — The U.S.

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Lynette Roth, curator at the Harvard Art Museums, said that when she decided to open an exhibition showcasing German art from 1943-1955, she knew it would be a sensitive subject for a modern day ...

WHEN the Nazis occupied the countries which Soviet Russia had annexed in 1939 they acquired their one opportunity to pose as friends and liberators. All the other countries which they had entered ...

President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin are drafting a surrender-or-die ultimatum to Germany, dispatches from Istanbul said today, and some observers in Washington ...

Fascism doesn't necessarily come about because of a military coup d'etat like the overthrow of socialist Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973. In many cases, far-right extremists are — unlike Chilean ...

For 75 years it lay buried beneath a crop-covered field in Germany. Now a memorial monument has been built at the site of the wreckage to remember six RAF men, including Scottish pilot Andrew Brown, ...

All three boys in the Lochowicz family on Milwaukee's south side fought in World War II. Erwin Sr. served in the Army engineers in both Europe and the Pacific. Ray was in the Army Air Corps in Europe.