In 1945, while recovering from an ankle injury he got while skiing in Bavaria, Doctor Maertens discovered that a new use for ...

A bear in the army?! Meet Wojtek, the soldier bear who fought alongside Polish troops in WWII. His story will amaze you!

Tuskegee Airmen Detroit Chapter President Arthur Green, left, holds a P-51D model as Lt. Col. Harry Stewart, Jr., center, and ...

Toilet water, juice or the urine of a comrade - a trial at the Klagenfurt provincial court brings to light all the things conscripts come up with for fake drug tests. And the gang of snobs from ...

This is another Military Tale from World War I ... The war was started when Archduke Ferdinand of Austrian was killed in Serbia by an assassin. Prior to the war, it was the Austrian-Hungarian ...

Bolzano, August 16 - Austria has deployed 70 soldiers to help police conduct checks at its border with Italy, near the Brenner Pass, territorial military commander Herbert Bauer announced on ...

Harry Stewart Jr. was one of the legendary flying corps’ most decorated pilots during the WWII, having claimed three Nazi aircraft in a single day.

Stewart celebrates his “hat trick” after ... combat pilots from the World War II-era 332nd Fighter Group, a segregated all-Black wing of the United States Army Air Forces.

Ski resorts have learned to cope with such whims of nature. Off to the upper Alps trooped 3,000 Austrian soldiers, with orders to bring back snow or else. They brought back tons of the stuff—in ...

Alan Pollock is a Playwright and author of ‘The Bear Who Went To War: The true story of Wotjek the bear cub adopted by Polish soldiers in World War Two’. He joins Seán to discuss.