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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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The SCR-300 Backpack Radio

The development of the U.S. Army’s “Walkie-Talkie” SCR-300 backpack radio was a game-changer for frontline troops.

26 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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A List of American Commanders in WWII Who Lost Their Lives

Relatively few U.S. generals lost their lives in World War II.

26 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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Prisoner in the Bulge

A veteran of the 6th Armored Division, Bob Max fought with the 9th Armored Infantry Battalion against the 1st SS Panzer Corps until he was captured near Bastogne.

26 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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Battle of the Bulge Tank Duel On Christmas Eve

During the “Bulge,” a small force of American soldiers held off a determined German assault on Christmas 1944.

25 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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Amazing Photography of Normandy: D-Day Plus 1 Year

A year after the Allied assault, the Normandy countryside still bore the scars of battle.

25 January 2019

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D-Day by the Numbers

Just how big was Operation Overlord? History on the Net gives the jaw-dropping raw numbers.

25 January 2019

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Dropping into Normandy: First-Hand Accounts of the D-Day Airborne Invasion

These are the personal stories of the American D-Day airborne jump, and the paratroopers that managed to pull victory from the jaws of defeat.

25 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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Raid on St. Nazaire

The daring British raid on St. Nazaire in May 1942 damaged the port’s dry dock so severely that the Germans never repaired it.

24 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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Hell in a Dark Wood

In the autumn of 1944, the U.S. First Army was chewed up in the Hürtgen Forest where it had to contend with counterattacks by the Germans.

23 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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