From 1943 through 1946, more than 3,400 prisoners (including 15 Nazi generals) were processed at Fort Hunt, according to ...

Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat.

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

It features footage of the real SAS members who fought in the war, including David Stirling and Johnny Cooper. 7. World War II: From the Frontlines ... concentration camp inmates and civilians.

The Nazis murdered an estimated 1.1 million people at the death camp in southern Poland before its liberation on January 27, 1945 Sarah Kuta After police and the nearby bomb squad investigated to ...

Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 with Nazi Germany surrendering in ... Auschwitz Liberation Soviet soldiers liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, near Krakow.

But at Bucknell’s “World in Transition” forum Tuesday evening, Takei said the most important lesson he can offer the world is that of his father, after his family had survived the internment camps ...

For the first time, the names of 425,000 individuals who collaborated with the Germans during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II have been made available ... served with the SS held at ...

The Tuskegee Airmen were Black fighter and bomber pilots, as well as support crews, with the 332nd and 477th groups who fought in World War II, numbering more than 16,000 men and women, according ...

Camp Beale opened in October 1942 as a training site for the 13th Armored and the 81st and 96th Infantry Divisions. During World War II, Camp Beale’s 86,000 acres were home for more than 60,000 ...

starting World War II in Europe. Nazis massacre Polish Jews or force them into ghettos, start to wipe out Poland's elites and attempt to squash resistance. 1940: Auschwitz camp created - On April ...