Germany’s Schnellboot (S-Boot) may have looked unremarkable, but it was a deadly naval weapon that gave the German Navy a powerful edge. As the fastest combat ship of World War II, it combined speed, ...

Police said they shot a man who ran at them with a knife. It was the second time German police had shot someone in just a few days. In Herne, a city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia ...

Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.

In 1945, the Swiss Army Knife came to America in a major way when the U.S. Army ordered it for Post Exchange stores, and soldiers in Europe took them home as souvenirs after World War II. In 1977, the ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to take a hammer to the global trade system is the realization of a yearslong dream for the often-ignored protectionist wing of the Republican Party. But what ...

While many submarine films were covered, the consensus among them all is that writer-director Wolfgang Peterson's 1981 film "Das Boot" is ... ships of World War II – German U-boats were ...

It was a major break from Germany's defence policy, which has prevented the permanent deployment of troops abroad since the end of WWII. At present, there are 150 German troops stationed in the ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Valuable guns, an antique cartridge case, and a rare World War II military knife are set to go under the hammer at Mitchells. The auction ...

The remains of a soldier from Massachusetts whose aircraft crashed in Europe during World War II in 1945 have been identified, and he will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, the Defense POW ...

Measuring just 2.9 inches (7.3 centimeters) long, the tool looks a bit like a small prehistoric Swiss Army knife. The sharp-edged flint blade was fastened to a wooden handle with birch tar ...

German lawmakers approved a massive defence and infrastructure spending plan proposed by incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz, allocating up to a trillion euros over the next decade. This plan aims ...