Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American soldiers examine weapons and gear abandoned by retreating Germans. (US Army Signal Corps) Gray clouds hung low, and a ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — 1944 in the Hürtgen Forest, American forces met the Germans in a fierce battle that lasted 88 days, the longest World War II battle on German ground. American casualties from the ...

Next weekend, the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg will be hosting an event to commemorate the upcoming 80th anniversaries of the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge, the ...

The only thing was being captured, and nobody wants that." The Battle of Hurtgen Forest is not a well-known World War II fight, but it was the longest single battle the U.S. Army has ever fought. The ...

YUMA — For more then 60 years, Yuma resident Jewel Marie Gresham had no idea what had happened to her brother, James Wilfred Turner, who was listed as missing in action after the World War II Battle ...

WWII Army Ranger veteran John Wardell, 99, received the Congressional Gold Medal. Wardell was honored for his service, including fighting in Normandy, France, and the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest. He ...

Remains of missing WWII soldier return home to Weymouth after 81 years Pvt. Alfred T. Langevin of Weymouth went missing in action during the Battle of Hurtgen Forest in Germany in 1944. His remains ...

In the final, heart-stopping hours of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, the elite 2nd Ranger Battalion was ordered to do what entire divisions had failed to achieve: take the vertical fortress of Castle ...