Facing determined German troops, soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion scaled this height at a high cost in men in 1944 during World War II. At first it might sound like Point du Hoc on ...

Berliners line up to pay their respects at one of the city's Soviet World War II memorials. May 8, 2025. (Dave Braneck/Courthouse News) BERLIN (CN) — The horrifying history of World War II doesn’t ...

DILWORTH - John Fiandaca saw the film "The Monuments Men," but he didn't need to. Seventy years ago, he lived that. Fiandaca spent three months in 1945 assigned to the now-famous group of art ...

Germany’s ruling coalition parties, CDU/CSU and SPD, agreed on a draft resolution urging the government to accelerate work on a monument in Berlin dedicated to Polish victims of Nazi Germany. The ...

Richard Barancik, the last surviving member of the Allied unit known as the Monuments Men and Women, which during and after World War II preserved a vast amount of European artworks and cultural ...