Erwin Rommel

In 1944, as head of the Office of Strategic Services in Bari, Italy, George Vujnovich guided a team of agents who worked with Yugoslav guerrilla leader Draza Mihailovich to airlift more than 500 airmen from a makeshift runway carved on a mountaintop in...

An exhibit that explores the experiences of Midwesterners captured in Germany and their experiences in World War II is coming to Ellendale on Monday. “Behind Barbed Wire” is housed in a converted school bus which illustrates this history through...

Today's topic: Some have made the argument that President Obama's nomination of Francis Collins, a born-again Christian geneticist, to head the National Institutes of Health is a disservice to the science community because it promotes someone who is known...

Robert J. Hutchings was working in the office of a Bloomsburg, Columbia County, hosiery mill when he joined the Army in 1942. Skilled at typing and taking shorthand, he became a GI stenographer -- a job that connected him to some of the leading figures of...

Drama? It was the greatest seaborne invasion in history. A beguiling plot? The 20th Century offers no more stirring a story than the Allied landings at Normandy in 1944. Mystery? The British, Canadian and American troops were kept in the dark for much...

You hear of these things now and again: a class ring or a letter or a library book improbably emerging from the clutter of decades and finding its way back to its owner. For Army veteran Dennis Sweeney, 91, it was a wartime diary — jottings of high...

Jammed shoulder to shoulder in amphibious landing craft No. 418, hardened Army Rangers sang "Happy Anniversary" as they crossed the English Channel in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. It was June 6, 1944, Sgt. Walter Geldon's third wedding anniversary....

First Lt. Gerhard G. Hennes, a communications specialist in Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps, had heard rumors of Jews and Gypsies being herded into concentration camps in Germany and Poland. He could not bring himself to believe them. Then, as...

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany - Symbols of war illuminate the sprawling, computer-generated wall map. A thatch of green lines shows the air routes of U.S. attack aircraft. Blue circles reflect the lethal reach of the Army's Patriot missile batteries. In the...

In a 1985 survey of 50 women war workers at Bethlehem Steel, Carol Baylor, a journalist doing a program for National Public Radio, found that many were living at home with their parents when the war broke out. Those who had children had friends or...

Third of five chapters In his bunk aboard HMS Empire Javelin, Pvt. Charles "Harry" Heinlein felt gentle rocking as the vessel, packed with more than 1,200 American soldiers, awaited orders to leave Weymouth harbor for one of the greatest military...

(First in a series) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - The search for Nelson Mackay Chavarria - family man, government lawyer, possible subversive - began one Sunday in 1982 after he devoured a pancake breakfast and stepped out to buy a newspaper. It ended last...