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 the Second World War, there were multiple people from Allied countries who deserted to the Axis powers. Actually, there are too many to name them all. Some of them ended up working propaganda ...

Throughout December, the 29th Division’s front was “quiet,” meaning that there were no large-scale combat operations in their sector, but artillery was fired back and forth across the Roer, and German ...

On December 16, 1944, as dawn broke over the Ardennes forest, 20-year-old Lieutenant Lyle Bouck and his 18-man Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon of the 394th Infantry Regiment faced an ...

A Wisconsin World War II soldier who was shot down over Germany was laid to rest in Racine on Friday, Sept. 27. Staff Sgt. Ralph Bode was a tail gunner when his bombing mission over Kassel, Germany ...

Arthur Monroe Lingo has finally come home. The World War II pilot, killed in action in 1944, is now at rest at National ...

I have known Hans Christian von Baeyer for decades. He was a chancellor professor of physics at the College of William & Mary. He also was the author of a long list of scientific books that earned him ...

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Poland is demanding Germany pay $1.3 trillion in reparations for atrocities committed during the Nazi occupation of the country. Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau sent an official note to Germany's ...