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Battle of the Bulge Tank Duel On Christmas Eve
By Christopher MiskimonThe Battle of the Bulge is famously known as the largest battle fought by the U.S. Army in World War II. Read more
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge is the popular name given to the German Ardennes Offensive, Hitler’s last desperate gamble to achieve victory in the West during World War II. The month-long Battle of the Bulge, fought December 16, 1944, through January 16, 1945, ended in Allied victory. However, the German assault made good initial progress toward its objectives of the Meuse River crossings and the seizure of the Belgian port of Antwerp, which would have driven a wedge between Allied armies on the Western Front. The German defeat in the Battle of the Bulge hastened the end of World War II.
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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
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Herrlisheim: What Became of the 12th Armored Division’s Lost Battalion
By Nathan N. PreferOn 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
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Adolf Hitler Sends Joachim Peiper to the Bulge
By Josh QuackenbushDuring the Battle of the Bulge, the largest battle America has ever fought, Hitler chose the Sixth Panzer Army for the German juggernaut’s most important role. Read more
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Ace of Aces
By Kelly BellBy May 8, 1945, Adolf Hitler had been dead for more than a week. Germany was in the act of formally surrendering to the Soviets and the Western Allies, so occupying Red Army troops in the eastern German town of Brunn were not expecting to witness what may have been World War II’s last dogfight over Europe. Read more
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Combat Soldier and Later, POW
By Ray Allen MillerI was raised on a farm between Hickory and Conover, North Carolina, the oldest of nine children, and this is a brief accounting of my military, combat, and prisoner of war experience in World War II. Read more
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From Omaha Beach to Victory
By Ralph and Mark PuhalovichRalph Puhalovich was born on April 17, 1925, in Oakland, California, to Flora and Ivan Puhalovich. Read more
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A Screaming Eagle in Bastogne
By Kevin M. Hymel“DON’T WORRY, GUYS––the Airborne is here!” shouted Private Howard Buford to the worn-out GIs he and his fellow paratroopers passed on the snowy road through Bastogne in the early hours of December 19, 1944. Read more
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“Love” Company in the Vosges Mountains
By John M. KhouryThe author is a self-described “tough kid from Brooklyn” who enlisted in the U.S. Army’s Enlisted Reserve program in October 1942, hoping to complete his college education before being called up for active duty. Read more
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La Gleize Battle of the Bulge Museum
By Michel De TrezThere is no shortage of museums in the Belgian Ardennes to record the region’s dark winter of World War II. Read more
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Battle of Graignes: An HQ Company’s Heroic Last Stand in Normandy
By Martin K.A. MorganSome 16 million Americans served during World War II, and tens of thousands of sons of the State of Louisiana served in every branch of the U.S. Read more
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Assault on Ludendorff Bridge: The First Allied Crossing of the Rhine
By Jon DiamondOn a cold March evening in the Goldenrod Café in West Point, Nebraska, Mary Timmermann, a waitress there, picked up the telephone receiver when her boss told her it was Omaha calling long distance for her. Read more
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From Paratrooper to POW: Bob Nobles of the 82nd Airborne
By Kevin M. Hymel“The lieutenant said for everyone to lay your arms down,” a fellow paratrooper told Pfc. Bob Nobles, who had been fighting for six grueling days in the hedgerows following his unit’s jump into Normandy. Read more
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Witnessing Patton’s Failure: A Prisoner’s View of the Task Force Baum Raid
By Eric NiderostIn December 1944 the vaunted Third Reich was in its death throes, crushed by Allied forces on all sides. Read more
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Battle of Reipertswiller: The 157th Infantry’s Heroic Stand During Operation Nordwind
By Christopher MiskimonBy mid-January 1945, the famous Battle of the Bulge, a massive and fatal failure for the Third Reich, was virtually over. Read more
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Heroic Stand at Hosingen
By Alice M. Flynn and Allyn VannoyFirst Lieutenant Tom Flynn and his fellow POWs remained locked inside their boxcar prison on a Frankfurt railroad siding on Christmas Eve, 1944, as air raid sirens wailed and bombs exploded throughout the city. Read more
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The Supply Front: The Allies’ Key to Victory
By Glenn BarnettAfter the war in Europe was won, General Dwight D. Eisenhower had many opportunities to review various campaigns with the leaders of the Soviet Army–– including even Joseph Stalin himself. Read more
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The Gothic Line: How the Allies Breached Germany’s Defenses in Italy
By Michael E. HaskewThe reason for it was unthinkable. The Gothic Line, the last line of defense in Italy, was necessary, but senior German commanders had not been concerned that it would ever be contested by Allied forces. Read more
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The Brazilian Expeditionary Force Invades Italy
By Nathan N. PreferThe term “United Nations” was in large part derived from the large number of nations that joined in common cause between 1939 and 1945 to defeat the Axis powers of Germany, Japan, and Italy during World War II. Read more
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Voices of the Bulge, Part II
By Michael Collins & Martin KingIn the first installment, a large German force made a surprise counteroffensive against American positons along the Belgian-German border—an operation that became known in the West as “the Battle of the Bulge.” Read more
