TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - As the unprecedented D-Day invasion in France got underway in June 1944, German prisoners of war were arriving in Texas by the thousands. According to the Texas Historical ...
“There is a lot of baggage in doing a German impression,” says Dave Fornell, of Elgin, a lead organizer of Rockford World War II Days. “My elevator pitch on why I do German has to do with their ...
Metal Detecting WWII Battlegrounds on MSN

It ended BADLY for this Elite German soldier!

In this metal detecting adventure we discover some very interesting WW2 equipment pieces from probably the last battle these ...
80 years ago, on May 5, 1945, the strangest fight in World War II took place. American soldiers and Wehrmacht troops teamed up to fight the SS. By Nicholas Slayton Published May 5, 2025 12:31 PM EDT ...
Amid the gentle slopes of the Belgian countryside in the small village of Hombourg, thousands of white marble headstones are set in gentle arcs. They mark the graves of 7,987 U.S. World War II ...
Professor Sönke Neitzel used secret transcripts of German prisoners of war to create a unique portrait of the mindset of soldiers during WWII. For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a ...
Audie Murphy wanted to join the Marines but was rejected for being too short. The paratroopers wouldn’t have him either, so he settled for infantry. Little did the baby-faced Texas farm boy imagine ...
KLESSIN, Germany — Thomas Siepert looks across the verdant grain field, which glows in the sun after a spring thunderstorm, with windmills slowly churning in the distance. Wild boar piglets trundle ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Reenactors portraying German World War I soldiers discussed their uniforms, equipment, and the difficulties the common soldier faced. They were ...