On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

In 1918, the Allies launched the Hundred Days Offensive—a relentless series of battles that broke the German Army’s will to ...

Soldiers of the 28th Infantry Division march down a street in Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Some of these men lost their weapons during the German advance in this area. The Battle of the Bulge ...

At 3:10 a.m. on July 4, 1918, American soldiers climbed out of their trenches in northern France. Most had never seen combat before. They had arrived in Europe weeks earlier. Now they were attacking ...

The term “Panzer” refers to a series of German tanks, the Panzer I through Panzer IV early in the war, followed by heavier combatants such as the Panther and Tiger Early Panzer IIIs carried 37–50mm ...