Metal Detecting WWII Battlegrounds on MSN

Lost WWII equipment recovered on former German Army land

A search across land once used by German forces leads to the recovery of scattered WWII artifacts, including helmets, field ...
Metal Detecting WWII Battlegrounds on MSN

Lost German helmets reveal how old gear was reused in WWII

Along a quiet forest line, detectorists uncover multiple German helmets spanning two world wars. Rare WWI steel helmets ...
In Latvia, thousands of Soviet soldiers killed in World War II are still waiting for that certainty. In a field outside ...
Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...
Here’s a look at how Snoopy has served his country, spanning more than 70 years.
As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...
Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan is a masterpiece, but movies like Platoon and Come and See are more powerful and resonant ...
Across sleepy and remote islands in the Pacific, U.S. military engineers are working around the clock to revive strategically important airstrips that American troops first built under fire over 70 ...
AT 96, Renee Salt’s life has been marked by unimaginable horrors. She is one of only two people still alive in Britain who ...
Every day I become more disgusted with the Republican-led Congress of which you are a part. Congress is supposed to be a co-equal branch of our government. Instead, you and ...
FRANKFURT, Jan. 23 — Although they were defeated in World War II, German soldiers and officers did not lose their individual honor, Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower declared this morning as he took off from ...
A 2018 video shows the typical clothing worn by British troops in World War I to protect them from the weather and hostile fire. The clothing, relatively simply by today’s standards, was often ...