Lester Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half ...

TYCHOWO, Poland - Eighty years after his liberation from a German prisoner of war camp, 101-year-old Lester F. Schrenk ...

The National Day of Remembrance of Poles Who Rescued Jews Under German Occupation, was marked today at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) with a Mass and special commemoration events ...

Their memory, experiences and culture are set to form the centrepiece of a bold project being driven forward by Banff man ...

French historian Marc Bloch witnessed the swift invasion of France by the Wehrmacht. He noted the Germans’ “embarrassing ...

With the Polish presidential elections just two months away, two of the country's leading right-wing candidates have become increasingly antagonistic toward Ukraine and its leadership. Kyiv can ill ...

Trump's strategy has panicked the European ruling elites. They are suddenly concerned that Ukraine will lose to the Russian forces and before long Putin will be at the borders of Germany or as ...

The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old.

A group of wild boars dug up 21 unexploded mortar shells from World War 2 in a forest near the village of Bięcino in northern Poland, local police in Słupsk said on 17 March. The ordnance has since ...

March 18 (UPI) --Poland and three Baltic states Tuesday announced their intention to withdraw from the 1997 Ottawa Treaty banning the use of anti-personnel mines to give their forces a critical ...

For the U.S., the economic gains of the Marshall Plan did not come from European countries’ repaying loans or allowing the ...

In May 1945, nearly 5 years after his capture, Corporal Jack Soden arrived back to his home in High Wycombe. At that time his family were living at 224 Desborough Road. With him he had his “War-time ...