In the dying days of the Reich, 350 French SS soldiers of the Charlemagne Division held their ground in Berlin’s burning streets. Surrounded by Soviet tanks and Stalin’s rocket artillery, they ...

Just days before Berlin fell, the Red Army faced brutal resistance at the Seelow Heights - Germany’s last major line of ...

In the final Soviet drive in Berlin in April 1945, the Red Army massed nearly 10,000 howitzers, ... Russia has fielded a menagerie of Soviet-era and post-Soviet artillery in Ukraine.

Berlin, Germany, February 1, 1954: Watched closely by a guard, Stars and Stripes news editor Harold McConnell checks out a statue of Joseph Stalin at the Soviet embassy in Berlin.

During the airlift, over 2.3 million tons of fuel, food and supplies were delivered to West Berlin in over 278,000 airdrops, according to a history of the campaign, by the U.S. Department of Defense.