On the night of Feb. 18, 1945, American soldiers did something the German defenders believed impossible, mounting a ...

We are saddened to hear about the passing of WWII Veteran Rocco Telese. Rocco was a combat veteran of the 85th Infantry Division who arrived in Italy late in 1943. Moving north through Italy, Rocco ...

In September 1943, a major Allied offensive launched on the southwest Italian coast off the Tyrrhenian Sea proved successful in securing a beachhead despite fierce German resistance. It was the first ...

ALBANY (AP) — Somewhere on the bottom of Italy’s largest lake lie the remains of two dozen American soldiers who died when their amphibious vehicle sank in 1945 in the waning days of the fighting in ...