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Top Secret: An Intelligence Jackpot

Allied theoreticians, engineers, and Navy WAVES helped solve the Nazi Enigma.

24 September 2019

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Soldiers: A Forgotten Hero

General Walter Krueger led American forces in the Pacific through New Guinea and the Philippines.

24 September 2019

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Gavin’s Sky Soldiers

James Gavin’s 82nd Airborne Division performed impressive feats in its effort to secure the river and canal crossings at Nijmegen for Operation Market Garden.

24 September 2019

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Cauldron of Destruction

The Allies fought feverishly in August 1944 to close the eastern end of the Falaise Pocket in order to ensnare the retreating Germans.

2 April 2019

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Army Nurses Corps: Angels In Olive Drab

The U.S. Army Nurse Corps risked (and sometimes gave) their lives to care for the sick and wounded at home and close to the battlefield.

29 March 2019

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The USS England and the Invasion of the South Pacific

Japanese Admiral Soemu Toyoda knew an American invasion of the South Pacific was coming somewhere—he just didn’t know where...

28 March 2019

Carl Gnam

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Dutch Debacle

After launching the offensive in the spring of 1940, the Nazis swept to victory in the Netherlands.

22 March 2019

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Assault Gun Tanker

During the Battle of the Bulge Private Harry Miller had a front-row seat when the German Army’s advance was stopped.

22 March 2019

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Meat Grinder at Yelnya

Weeks of heavy fighting produced the first Red Army victory of the war on the Eastern Front.

21 March 2019

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Flight Out of Hell: The Harrowing Bombing Mission to Kavieng

20 March 2019

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Prisoner of the Gestapo: Freed by Words

20 March 2019

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WWII’s Tragic Aviation Accidents

During World War II, more than 13,000 American aviators lost their lives in training accidents at home before they ever faced the enemy. Their sacrifice is all but forgotten today.

19 March 2019

Carl Gnam

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Ordeal at Monte Cassino

The Allied stalemate along Italy’s Gustav Line, anchored at Monte Cassino, was one of the toughest, most frustrating battles of the entire war.

15 March 2019

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The Wereth 11 Massacre During the Battle of the Bulge

Members of an African American artillery battalion went from being hated to revered to tortured and killed by the SS at Wereth during the Battle of the Bulge. The crime remains unsolved.

7 March 2019

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Celebrating U.S. Army History

The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC) in Carlisle, PA covers more than a century of American military history.

4 March 2019

Carl Gnam

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