Italian women kept people alive long enough to keep fighting. Women served as nurses, assisted wounded partisans and sick ...

Under artillery fire in frozen Belgium, combat medics established battlefield medicine standards still used today.

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s visit to UK is the first by a German head of state in 27 years. A wreath is laid on behalf of Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier [right] and his wife, ...

Walter Knight, 101, pictured in his Colorado Springs home on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a medic in the Pacific during World War II. Knight worked as a watchmaker ...

A group of POWs staged a sit-down strike at local processing plants. One POW, Heinz Golze, escaped from camps five times. Young women working alongside POWs were said to be "very familiar" with them.

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.

A Navy corpsman killed during the Battle of Okinawa will be the first American in five years added to a memorial on the island commemorating the battle. Petty Officer 3rd Class Vernon Martin — a ...

Every country that participated in the World War II air war had more than a few types of airplanes, but their design schemes could be distinguished throughout the conflict. The Americans liked to ...

MINSK, 24 April (BelTA) - Many combat medics saved patients at the cost of their own lives, and we must remember their heroism and use these examples to foster patriots among the youth, Belarusian ...

Under fire and without hesitation, the Sanitäter rushed to save wounded soldiers right on the battlefield. These were the medics of the German Army. China claps back with its own tariffs on US imports ...

ESCONDIDO, Calif. — Ed Monnie, a World War II veteran and former Navy medic, celebrated his 100th birthday in Escondido surrounded by family and friends. Monnie, born in 1925, is part of the "Greatest ...