After more than 80 years, Army veteran Willibald Bianchi was properly identified using advanced forensic science. Next May, ...

Elisabeth Vincken had listened to artillery fire for eight straight days before someone knocked on her cottage door on Christmas Eve in 1944. She opened it to find three lost American soldiers, one ...

To nearly every German soldier it became clear the war had been lost, both in the Wehrmacht and even among some ideological diehard Waffen-SS. Europe was filled with large groups of refugees, ...

A German mother sheltered three lost American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge—and did the same for German soldiers hours later.

Deep in the German woods, a team of relic hunters returns to a former frontline and almost immediately uncovers a remarkably well-preserved German dog tag, complete with blood type and unit markings ...

Amid the hardships of the war, Christmas dinner became an annual reprieve for far-flung troops across the globe.

Here’s a collection of excerpts from the special columns of This Month in Fort McCoy history that highlighted history at then-Camp McCoy in September ...