Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...

A new analysis of 105-year-old data on the effectiveness of 'dazzle' camouflage on battleships in World War I has found that while dazzle had some effect, the 'horizon effect' had far more influence ...

The war in Ukraine is one of robots and horses. It’s WW1-style trench warfare with modern killing machines. As Kyiv is perfecting the art of lethal drones on the ground, sea, and air, Moscow has ...

It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...

Fred Benning, a Nebraska native awarded the military's second-highest honor for his battlefield courage as an 18-year-old ...

Eurostar has suspended services between London and Paris after the discovery of an unexploded Second World War bomb near tracks in the French capital. Thousands of passengers are disrupted as the ...

Bragg, a World War II ... a machine gun company, according to reports at the time in The Daily News in nearby Norfolk, where he grew up. At age 18, he had been “over the top many times,” into the ...

In this photo provided by Dan Donaldson, Dana Klabenes, the city clerk in Neligh, Neb., holds her hand under a photo of former Mayor Fred Benning, a World War I veteran who is being honored by having ...

The new namesake is Fred Benning, a Nebraska native awarded the military’s second-highest honor for his battlefield courage as an 18-year-old corporal in 1918, near the end of World War I.

It’s rare that people in trench collapses survive, as dirt suddenly rushes down, with just 1 square yard weighing as much as 3,000 pounds. Not only are victims unable to breathe, but they also ...