By 1917, the meaninglessness of the sacrifice had become clear enough to the combatants, if not to civilians back home: ...
July 1, 1916—the first day of the Battle of the Somme became the bloodiest day in British military history. Over 57,000 soldiers were lost in mere hours, in a battle that was both a disaster and a ...
Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military ...
The Four Chaplains Day observance, Feb. 3, 2025, marks 82 years since Fox, Washington, Poling and Goode selflessly sacrificed ...
Darby’s Rangers went missing in action during World War II, he has been accounted for and will be laid to rest.
The early morning sun is already arching its way into the sky as you step across the field in northern France which has been ...
The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people ...
The Avro Lancaster was definitely the most famous British bomber of WWII, but was it the best? When one thinks of the Royal ...
A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to ...
The US military sought an armored weapon to bypass the heavily defended ... the armed tractor ultimately never made it to ...
Newly uncovered remnants of an army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg offer new clues into the lives of America's first ...
The names are carved on poles of African hardwood that are set upright as if reaching for the sun. No one knows where the men ...