Al Albrecht kept his stories of deception, from inflatable tanks to his loudspeaker half-track, secret from his family for ...

Our buddies over at Engadget spotted what looks like the spawn of a three-way between a modern dual suspension mountain bike, a WW2 German half-track and a snowmobile. Maneuvering this thing ...

My father, a longtime Milwaukeean, duped Nazis with a fake army during World War II– then stayed silent about his secret ...

When the war ended, Allied soldiers tracked down Nicolas de Largillierre's "Portrait de femme à mi-corps" with the help of a ...

Waldemar Othmer, described as “Richmond’s own spy” in the Oct. 1, 1950, Times-Dispatch, was a German national with ... after the U.S. entered World War II, a sense of fear permeated the ...

As air raid sirens wailed and bombs fell nightly, Londoners of all ages faced the inescapable horrors of World War II during ...

The fighters provided crucial air support for the D-Day landings and many were adapted to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning the ...

The son of a Holocaust survivor has fulfilled a yearslong personal mission with the unveiling of memorials to hundreds of ...

But it's likely you have never heard of the Cap Arcona, a German version of the Titanic. Before World War II, the vessel was ... to repair bombed out railroad tracks during the day.

Bill Whitaker reports on the bombing of the Cap Arcona, a little-known human tragedy in the closing days of World War II. Once a luxurious German ocean liner, the Cap Arcona was commandeered by ...

Here are the best World War II movies to educate and entertain you. Long before he was dueling Darth Vader in Star Wars, Sir Alec Guinness starred in this tour de force WWII film as Colonel ...