Eddie Slovik made a series of decisions that turned him into the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War. He wrote and signed a confession admitting his crime. He refused five ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, left, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attend a joint press conference at the ...

Discover military and war memorabilia items that could be worth a small fortune to collectors today, from vintage medals to ...

Charles Norman Shay was believed to be the last of roughly 500 Native American soldiers who came ashore at Normandy, France ...

As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a ...

A 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield on Nov. 12, 1944. Lt.

After being killed and disappearing 80 years ago, a West Virginia World War II soldier has been accounted for and his remains have returned stateside.

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D-Day veteran Charles Shay was awarded the Silver Star for repeatedly plunging into the sea and carrying critically wounded ...

On a quiet patch of forest where a German WWII base once stood, a team of detectorists uncover the traces of a long-abandoned ...