The Allied invasion of Italy at Salerno, known as Operation Avalanche, was quickly turning into a disaster. Against hardened German forces, inexperienced Allied troops faced brutal counterattacks, ...

Architect Liam O’Connor has been named the 2025 winner of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame. The ...

His name resonates with images of decisive victories and unwavering resolve, forever etched in the annals of wartime w.

A 100-year-old D-Day veteran has been celebrated by his local council at a civic reception where the mayor spoke of her pride ...

Witkowicz, who served in the United States Army, participating in both D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge ... Inc. A bench with his name on it was placed facing the Atlantic Ocean for veterans ...

When Phoenix House closed – a cost-cutting casualty amid the Covid-19 pandemic ... chopped down on D-Day 2018. Work on the longboat began the following year, based on authentic plans supplied ...

Peeps’ recent series on Victoria Cross recipients has prompted an intriguing query from a reader about a decorated D-Day hero who gave his life in the bitter fighting just a week after the landings.

After the war, President Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces in 1948, and as Black and Brown Americans claimed their ...

Douglas Norman McLauglin jumped near the town of Hammenkeln, Germany. A fellow paratrooper reported that his feet did not ...

The nights were cold; most all saw the thermometer dip well below freezing. And there was snow, huge flakes that covered the ground, turning the landscape into a winter wonderland. But it wasn’t ...

Whenever Britain faced conflict - from early invasions by the Celts and Romans to WWII when skies were criss-crossed with ...