Battle at Crossroads X: Glidermen of Bastogne
WWII
For the cold and hungry GIs of Company B, 1/401st Glider Infantry Regiment, holding the western approach to Bastogne would push the men to the limits of their endurance. Read more
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By Leo G. Barron
George S. Patton’s End Run: The Story of His Final Days
WWII
By early 1945, less than a year before General George S. Patton’s mysterious death, Adolf Hitler’s armies were almost exhausted. Read more
Panzers at the Gates of Moscow
WWII
The war map gave Adolf Hitler every reason to be confident. Operation Barbarossa, Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union begun on June 22, 1941, had succeeded spectacularly on nearly every front. Read more
Operation Uranus: Marshal Georgi Zhukov’s Stalingrad Trap
WWII
In the fall of 1942, in a prelude to the now-famous Operation Uranus, the Red Army had its back to the wall once again. Read more
Operation Silver Fox: An Opportunity Lost at Murmansk
WWII
As Adolf Hitler began to formulate his grandiose plans for the conquest of the Soviet Union, he considered the far northern operation area little more than a sideshow. Read more
Bushmasters’ Baptism of Fire: The Battle of Lone Tree Hill
WWII
Lieutenant General Hachiro Tagami, commanding officer of the 36th Division, dubbed the Tiger Division, did not like the news he had received from Imperial Army Headquarters in Tokyo. Read more
Battle of Belmont: Ulysses S. Grant’s First Battle
Civil War
When the Civil War started in 1861, there were only two officers in the Union Army who had commanded a force in battle larger than a brigade. Read more
The Battle of the Bulge & The Defense of St. Vith
WWII
The U.S. 9th Armored Division arrived in the European Theater of Operations in late October 1944 as a reserve for Maj. Read more
Operation Grenade: Race to the Roer
WWII
In early 1945, while the American First Army was focusing on the dams of the Roer River near the German-Belgium border and Patton’s Third Army was probing the Eifel and clearing the Saar-Moselle triangle, the First Canadian Army was about to open their offensive as part of Operation Veritable in a drive southeast up the left bank of the Rhine from the vicinity of Nijmegen. Read more
Panzer Strike at Kasserine Pass
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WWII
Ignoring the swirling sands stirred up by the fierce winds of the Sahara Desert in the early morning hours of February 14, 1943, Generalleutnant Heinz Ziegler ordered his panzer columns forward to attack the American forces deployed in central Tunisia. Read more
Soviet Operation Bagration Destroyed German Army Group Center
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WWII
Overshadowed by the Allied landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944, the Soviet Union’s Operation Bagration on June 23 is one of the least-covered campaigns of World War II. Read more
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest: A Tactical Nightmare for Allied Forces
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WWII
Gray skies hung low and a steady drizzle dripped through the tall, dense fir trees near the German-Belgian border on the morning of Thursday, November 16, 1944, during the Battle of Hürtgen Forest. Read more
The Battle of Varna: “Let Us Fight with Bravery”
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Military History
During the mid-14th century, a new theater of the crusades erupted, this time on the doorstep of Christian Europe. Read more
Cauldron of Destruction
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WWII
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who was attired in civilian clothing in keeping with his role as an observer for U.S. Read more
Operation Varsity: Flying Gliders Across the Rhine
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WWII
March 24, 1945. The green light flashed from the C-47 tug plane, prompting the glider pilot being pulled behind it to release his tow rope over Landing Zone N, just east of the Rhine River. Read more
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman’s Futile Assault
Civil War
Shortly after dawn on June 27, 1864, Union artillery crews sprang into action on 200 guns facing miles of the Confederate defenses along the Kennesaw Line near Marietta, Georgia. Read more
Red Eclipse: Halting the Communist Drive on Seoul
Military History
By mid-April 1951, the war in Korea was nearly 10 months old. United Nations forces had suffered a reversal of fortunes in late 1950 with the entry of Communist China into the war, losing the South Korean capital of Seoul but later regaining it. Read more
Soviet Invasion of Manchuria: Catching Japan Unawares
WWII
At 11:02 am on August 9, 1945, an American warplane dropped an atomic device nicknamed “Fat Man” onto the city of Nagasaki, Japan. Read more