82 years ago today, a U.S. Coast Guard pilot flew history’s first helicopter rescue mission. On January 3, 1944, Coast Guard Pilot Frank Erickson flew straight into the teeth of a raging storm to ...

What’s Merry about all this, you ask? We’re fighting — it’s cold, we aren’t home. All true but what has the proud Eagle Division accomplished with its worthy comrades the 10th Armored Division, the ...

A German mother sheltered three lost American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge—and did the same for German soldiers hours later. This year marks the 81st anniversary of the infamous “Battle of ...

Eighty-one years ago this month, on Dec. 16, 1944, German forces launched their last major offensive on the Western Front. The Battle of the Bulge would become the largest and bloodiest single battle ...

On Sept. 24, 1944, the Washington, D.C. Evening Star ran a remarkable op-ed by Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld of the Washington Hebrew Congregation. Gerstenfeld was born in London, England, on Sept. 1, 1904 ...

The 1944 Army-Navy game was dubbed the "game of the century" by some journalists. (Special Collections & Archives Department, Nimitz Library, U.S. Naval Academy) By 1944 the United States had entered ...

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Im Beisein von Enkeln und Urenkeln von Erich Fellgiebel wird am Donnerstag, den 18. Dezember um 15 Uhr vor dem ehemaligen Wohnhaus von Fellgiebel in der Wrangelstraße 10 in Steglitz eine zweiseitige ...

Tony Walter's fourth book about the Green Bay Packers, like the other three, is not just about the Packers. "War Year Champions: The Welcome Diversion of the 1944 Green Bay Packers," recounts how ...

Taylor Sheridan has invested in Yellowstone with seven different spinoffs — and 1944 is one of several shows that is still awaiting release. 1944 isn’t expected to move forward until The Madison ...

Bo Petersson receives funding from Malmö University and the Hamrin Foundation. The Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, recently drew parallels between his country’s experience from its conflicts with ...

Workers prepare a replica of Adolf Hitler's secret wartime headquarters on July 23, 2007 in Neubrueck near Berlin, Germany. Filming began last... Claus Schenk, Graf von Stauffenberg German aristocrat ...