GINKEL HEATH, Netherlands — Hundreds of paratroopers dropped out of near-cloudless skies Saturday over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the 80th anniversary of one of World War II's ...

Operation Barbarossa, original name Operation Fritz, during World War II, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to ...

American historian Samuel Eliot Morison once said: ""If Tinian in the Pacific was the perfect amphibious operation on a small scale, Operation Dragoon was the nearly faultless one on a large scale."" ...

Military conflict has long defined the history of the world, helping draw borders, advance technologies, and giving rise to many of the political structures we see today. Unfortunately, not every ...

This nondescript wall in a Surrey woodland played a key role in WWII - helping Allied soldiers prepare for the D-Day landings.

World War II's Operation Market Garden commemorated King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands, center, meets some surviving veterans Saturday in Ginkel Heath, Netherlands, to mark the 80th anniversary ...