Leonard Dowling, who turned 100 on June 21, shared some of his WWII experience about getting shot down in a Liberator bomber ...

World War II may have ended decades ago, but its secrets continue to surface in the most unexpected ways. From hidden air raid shelters to long-lost warships and secret military bases, this video ...

World War II DeLand veteran shot down over Germany celebrates 100 years. Patricio G. Balona. ... It was September 1944, and he was 19. The bomber was shot down over Karlsruhe, Germany.

There were 3,000 animals in Berlin’s Tiergarten at the outbreak of World War II; by the end, there were 91. In London, zoo staff killed some 200 animals—more than the Germans destroyed in ...

Kulschewski told WDR that about 1,500 to 2,000 unexploded bombs from World War II are found every year across North Rhine-Westphalia, the state in which Cologne is located.

World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and secret protocols to it between the Soviet Union and the Third ...