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High-Spirited Stupidity

Paratrooper Bill Yarborough, an icon of airborne warfare during World War II, lost his command but conquered his pride.

24 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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Cherbourg’s Bloody Toll

The capture of this major city on the Normandy coast of France gave the Allies the deepwater port they needed, but the facilities were badly damaged by the Germans.

24 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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Panzer Lehr Division’s Assault on Bastogne

Fritz Bayerlein’s elite Panzer Lehr Division was one of the spearheads of Hitler’s last major offensive in the West, the Battle of the Bulge.

24 April 2020

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101st Airborne Medic recalls Op. Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge

Medic Al Mampre treated Easy Company’s wounded during Market Garden and later for the 101st Airborne Division’s 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment at the Battle of the Bulge.

22 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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The German Channel Dash

In June 1942, courage and incompetence merged when the British dueled with Germany’s mightiest warships in the English Channel.

17 April 2020

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D-Day Battle for Easy Red & Fox Green Beaches

Amid bullets and shells, blood and death, the men of the 1st Infantry Division helped turn the tide of battle during the D-Day landings in Normandy.

10 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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World War II Odyssey Across Europe

A soldier in Patton’s Third Army saw firsthand the devastation of war as he travelled across Europe during World War II.

7 April 2020

Carl Gnam

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Operation Cobra: Get a Move On!

An aggressive armored reconnaissance battalion leads the Allied breakout from the Normandy beachhead.

31 March 2020

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Erwin Rommel’s War Photos: Images the Desert Fox Took Himself

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famed German commander in North Africa and Western Europe, was also an avid photographer.

27 March 2020

Carl Gnam

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Hitler’s Death in the Führerbunker

The Third Reich that Hitler boasted would last a thousand years ended in a series of dismal concrete rooms deep beneath the blazing ruins of Berlin where the madman took his own life.

24 March 2020

Carl Gnam

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Captured at the Bulge

Private Leon Goldberg fought off German attacks at the Battle of the Bulge for three days before becoming a prisoner of war.

6 March 2020

Carl Gnam

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D-Day Capture of Les Moulins Draw

On D-Day, elements of 12 battalions from the 29th Infantry Division gave their all to seize one of Omaha Beach’s vital draws.

28 February 2020

Carl Gnam

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The M29 Weasel: The WWII Track Vehicle Never Used as Intended

Although the M29 Weasel’s intended mission never took place, it found work transporting troops and supplies during World War II.

25 February 2020

Carl Gnam

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Easy Company Mortarman

Paratrooper Bradford Freeman was a member of the 101st Airborne's famed Band of Brothers. He recalls fighting in Normandy, Operation Market Garden, and the Battle of the Bulge during World War II.

25 February 2020

Carl Gnam

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Ordnance: The Piper L-4 “Eyes in the Sky”

The Piper L-4 and Stinson L-5 Sentinel liaison aircraft were important air assets employed by the United States during World War II.

24 February 2020

Carl Gnam

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