“There is a lot of baggage in doing a German impression,” says Dave Fornell, of Elgin, a lead organizer of Rockford World War II Days. “My elevator pitch on why I do German has to do with their ...

Behind the flags propaganda and grand strategies of World War II were ordinary soldiers forming their own hard opinions about ...

There are two things you need to know about the pictures on a recent Montana National Guard recruiting poster: The first is that the soldier in the center is Command Sgt. Maj. Lawrence DeBoo, the CSM ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

Army Sgt. 1st Class Edward A. Carter Jr. was born in Los Angeles to missionary parents and grew up in India and Shanghai. That background gave him a wide exposure to the world, and he became fluent in ...