“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 ...

Even though he is 92, Howard Hensleigh of Menlo Park, Calif., remembers 1944 like it was yesterday. That was the year the Army World War II veteran killed a German soldier during a gunbattle in ...

There are two things you need to know about the pictures on a recent Montana National Guard recruiting poster: The first is that the soldier in the center is Command Sgt. Maj. Lawrence DeBoo, the CSM ...

HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week. High school students placed white gerbera daisies on small black ...

Slogging through the snow-covered fields of Germany, 20 below zero at night, fired upon relentlessly by the enemy. Hungry, always hungry. Terrified, dodging bombs at every turn, soldiers in World War ...