As the German city of Cologne evacuates some 20,000 people to defuse three World War II bombs, DW looks at the problem of ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of people were being evacuated from central Cologne in western Germany on Wednesday following the discovery of three wartime bombs, in what the city authority called the ...

The volcanic ash dragged Franklin Sousley down as he staggered off the landing craft. That February 19, 1945, on the beaches of Iwo Jima, bullets whistled past the steel pot on his head, mortars ...