During the Second World War, there were multiple people from Allied countries who deserted to the Axis powers. Actually, ...

THE WILD BLUE: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany, 1944-1945. By Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon & Schuster, $26. FLAK hit the plane ... Oil streamed out of the engine, and flame was belching ...

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 ...

For eight decades, Gerard Melofchik was among more than 70,000 World War 2 veterans still unaccounted for. How he was finally ...

The remains of a World War II Lt. from eastern Carolina have been recovered and identified after the plane he was on was shot down in Germany in 1944. The remains of a World War II Lt. from eastern ...

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 ...

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 ...