During the last days of the 1944/45 European campaign I was serving as Recce Troop commander with the 1st RTR. We were holding a section of the line south of Harburg, a suburb of Hamburg. There was ...

THOMSON, Ga. (AP) — A 98-year-old World War II veteran who took part in the D-Day invasion and the Battle of the Bulge and witnessed the German surrender during the war has been honored by France. The ...

FILE - Some of the AP Paris staff join Paris Bureau Chief Ed Kennedy, seated center left, for a farewell get-together in the early hours of May 18, 1945, just before he embarked for the United States ...

German Surrender, courtesy of Chris Bell of the Tommy Adkins Society From Victoria Park to Italy. Members of the 2/5th Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment ...

“Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band. Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and ...

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One day he was studying languages in university, the next he was witnessing a key moment in world history. When Derek Knee enlisted in the army during WW2 he could never imagine what a pivotal role he ...

A VETERAN who acted as an interpreter at the surrender which led to the end of the Second World War yesterday remembered the "extraordinary" moment, exactly 60 years on. A VETERAN who acted as an ...

NEW YORK -- In World War II's final moments in Europe, Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the biggest scoop in its history. He reported -- a full day ahead of ...

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The German Constitutional Court is currently looking into whether or not the Greek aid package was legal. Plaintiff Markus Kerber spoke to EURACTIV Germany about delays to the court ruling and ...