In this Part 2 of Verdun in WW2, I travel just outside Verdun to Douaumont and the Douaumont Ossuary to look at the other WW2 Then and Now photos taken by LIFE Magazine photographer, Ralph Morse ...

Verdun was one of the most savagely fought battles of World War One. The Germans fired two million shells in the opening eight-hour bombardment, and tens of millions were fired over the course of ...

Further, each layer of command lied to the one above it as to the results of the latest offensive effort. While Joffre claimed that Verdun had three lines of defense, there was only one line of ...

Meet Verdun Hayes, a D-day veteran who just became the oldest person in the world to skydive - at the age of 101 and 38 days old. The great-grandfather was joined by three generations of his ...