In the winter of 1944, four German paratroopers and a Kriegsmarine sailor broke free from a POW camp in the French port of ...

Germany has ordered the Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) Joint Strike Missile (JSM) to equip its fleet of Lockheed Martin ...

For a company that started out in a shed converting surplus US Army engines to power bicycles, Honda has certainly grown. Yesterday it launched and recovered its own rocket, programming the craft ...

That is, if they made it ashore at all. Many men drowned when their landing craft were swamped by seawater in the choppy English Channel. Weighed down by a hundred pounds of gear strapped to their ...

I’m not sure yet how I got out after I was hit.” Troops from the Royal Winnipeg Rifles aboard a wooden landing craft carrying about 35 men, heads towards Juno Beach on D-Day June 6, 1944.

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

BERLIN (AP) — Severe storms in southern Germany forced a Ryanair flight to make an emergency landing late Wednesday after violent turbulence injured nine people on board, German police said ...

DeVita's main job as part of the landing craft's crew was to raise and lower the front ramp on orders of the coxswain, or boat driver, to allow more than 30 troops from the 1st Infantry Division ...

Many of the landing craft ran aground on sandbars and the soldiers had to wade over 100 yards in neck-deep water to get to the beach. Some units of the 1st Infantry Division suffered 30% ...

By June 1940, Nazi Germany had conquered much of Europe, and the United Kingdom stood as the last major obstacle to Hitler’s dominance. The British were militarily weakened after the defeat of ...