
American Seventh Army
New Years Battle at Ludweiler: Delaying Operation Nordwind
By Patrick J. Chaisson“Lieutenant Rochester, take a look at this.”
The American patrol halted next to an abandoned industrial building. Read more
American Seventh Army
“Lieutenant Rochester, take a look at this.”
The American patrol halted next to an abandoned industrial building. Read more
American Seventh Army
On January 17, 1945, as Allied forces prepared to descend on Germany itself and put an end to the war in Europe, an American tank battalion disappeared. Read more
American Seventh Army
By the summer of 1944, the Allies were on a roll. On June 6, the vanguard of a million-man offensive that began as Operation Overlord was spreading eastward across France, crushing all German attempts to stop it. Read more
American Seventh Army
By mid-September 1944, the U.S. Third Army was poised to strike at the soft underbelly of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich along a fabled corridor in northeastern France used for centuries by armies tramping across Europe. Read more
American Seventh Army
Jim Kunkle did it all. He flew the Lightning. He shot down German fighters. Read more
American Seventh Army
Between 1944 and 1947, over two million Russians who had been living in the occupied countries of Europe, some voluntarily, some not, were forcibly repatriated to the Soviet Union. Read more
American Seventh Army
The smoke had barely cleared from the battlefields of North Africa when the victorious Allies turned their attention northward to Europe. Read more
American Seventh Army
Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, was the only operation in World War II in which generals Bernard Montgomery and George S. Read more
American Seventh Army
By Kevin M. Hymel
“OH MY GOD!” thought tanker Joe Cotten. “We’re shooting machine guns at a Tiger Royal!” It was late December 1944 in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France, near the German border. Read more
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By Dan Dougherty
BACKSTORY: Dan Dougherty graduated from Central High School in Austin, Minnesota in June 1943 and was immediately activated from the Army Reserve. Read more