German soldiers entered World War II believing British troops were weak and unwilling to fight. Through battles from Dunkirk to Normandy, that belief was tested, challenged, and ultimately overturned.

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 ...

German soldiers file past a Puma infantry fighting vehicle at German Army headquarters in Strausberg, Germany, on Oct. 1, 2025. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) BERLIN — Germany’s parliamentary budget ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of the most ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. This past ...

BAUMHOLDER, Germany – Many U.S. Soldiers stationed at U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz locations in Germany face the challenge of spending Christmas far from home. To combat this loneliness, the ...

Congress is moving to limit the Pentagon’s ability to pull forces out of Europe and South Korea, easing concerns among allied governments. The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, finalized by ...

As tensions between the United States and Venezuela escalate, a national security and foreign policy expert revealed what it would take for the Trump administration to deploy American boots on the ...

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 ...

Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Friday that no West Virginia National Guard members deployed to Washington, D.C., have requested to return home in the wake of Wednesday's shooting of two West Virginia ...

No Thanksgiving would be complete without the Macy's parade, NFL football and the "March of the Wooden Soldiers." Generations of kids grew up watching the comedy duo of Laurel and Hardy save the toys ...