1944: Germany launches the first V-1 rocket attacks against London. It is the first guided-missile strike against an enemy city in the history of warfare. The V-1, one of Nazi Germany's so-called ...

Father Max Josef Metzger, a Catholic priest executed by the Nazi regime in 1944 for his peace activism and ecumenical work, was beatified Sunday in Freiburg, Germany. Cardinal Kurt Koch, prefect of ...

WWII: number of Allied soldiers landing on D-Day 1944, by beach WWII: total number of Allied ships used during D-Day 1944 WWII: total number of casualties during D-Day 1944, by army and area WWII: ...

THE German Army has several tasks which it must fulfill simultaneously. It must resist the Anglo-American invasion. It must oppose the Russians in the east. It must keep the satellite states in line ...

The last eight months of World War II were the war's worst. Even when the result seemed inevitable, the death camps worked to a frenzy, and the allied campaign acquired a brutality all its own, as ...

Throughout December, the 29th Division’s front was “quiet,” meaning that there were no large-scale combat operations in their sector, but artillery was fired back and forth across the Roer, and German ...