First conceived by Messerschmitt as a carrier-borne fighter, the Me 155 morphed into a high-speed attack plane and later a high-altitude interceptor known as the Blohm & Voss BV 155. An agreement on ...

Outcome: German invasion of Denmark and Norway. Norway was a neutral country so any military presence there would have been a violation of that status. Nonetheless, Hitler's Grand Admiral Erich Raeder ...

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The British troops in Singapore surrendered unconditionally to the Japanese forces on February 15, 1942, seven days after the Nippon troops first stormed the island ‘Worst disaster in British history’ ...

Chancellor Adolf Hitler tonight assumed personal command of all Germany’s armed forces, named his chief aide, Hermann Wilhelm Goering, a field marshal, and announced a drastic shake-up in the German ...

NUREMBERG, Nov. 27, 1945 (UP) -- While secret Nazi documents, disclosing Germany's long preparations for war, were introduced at the war crimes trial today, it was learned that Allied medical experts ...

NUREMBERG, Nov. 21, 1945 (UP)-Hermann Goering muffed his first big chance to sound off in the Nuremberg court today. The big, blustering Nazi was one of Adolf Hitler's top party spellbinders and he ...

What You Need to Know: The German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin is often cited as one of the worst aircraft carriers in history. Designed by Deutsche Werke, it was launched in 1938 but never saw ...

The young captain on the bridge of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s yacht Hohenzollern had ambitions to match those of his master: both wanted to bust the bully-bold British Navy. In World War I Hamburg-born Erich ...

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes European edition, Oct. 2, 1946. It is republished unedited in its original form. The accompanying sketches were all created by Stars and Stripes ...