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Top Secret: Undercover Hero

Fighting for the Allies in World War II, OSS operative Peter Ortiz survived many harrowing encounters with the enemy.

22 November 2019

Carl Gnam

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The Red Ass Squadron Goes to War

A young fighter pilot survived and became a combat veteran as a member of the 356th Fighter Squadron during World War II.

22 November 2019

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Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division supported by British tankers and Guardsmen fought their way into the Dutch town of Nijmegen prior to a daring river assault against entrenched German defenders.

15 November 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

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

Carl Gnam

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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

Carl Gnam

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Deadly Duel Above Berlin

During the last great air raid over Berlin in March 1945, it was Me-262 jet fighters vs. B-17s. Survivors tell the story of the loss of Skyway Chariot.

1 March 2019

Carl Gnam

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Bloodletting in the Hürtgen Forest

During repeated attempts to break through German defenses in an impenetrable German forest in November 1944, American forces suffered horrendous casualties but still prevailed.

18 February 2019

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Commanding Patton’s Personal Tanks

From North Africa to Sicily, Lieutenant Jim Craig led General George S. Patton, Jr.’s Provisional Tank Company.

15 February 2019

Carl Gnam

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1st Special Service Force Fight for Mt. La Difensa

America’s elite 1st Special Service Force gained everlasting fame in its first combat mission by storming Monte La Difensa in Italy and overwhelming the defenders in a brutal six-day battle.

11 February 2019

Carl Gnam

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Outlandish D-Day Invasion Tales: A Hard Start for Rudder’s Rangers

The men of Rudder's Rangers had a suicidal D-Day mission: knock out the Germans' big guns atop Pointe du Hoc.

6 February 2019

Carl Gnam

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Combat Photographers: Shooting the War

Much of what we know about World War II comes from the visual images taken by combat photographers. Countless photographers were killed or wounded trying to cover the action, so people at home would know what the war was really about.

4 February 2019

Carl Gnam

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The Rise of Ike: Supreme Allied Commander in the Making

Dwight Eisenhower’s military career and the key contacts he made along the way prepared him for his ultimate role in World War II.

28 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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With the “Ragtag Circus” Across Europe: The Story of Frank Fauver

A soldier recalls his time with the U.S. 83rd Infantry as it blazed a trail of courage from the hedgerows of France to the Hürtgen Forest and the war's end at the Elbe.

27 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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