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SCR-300 WW2 Radio Backpack: The “Walkie Talkie” That Shaped the War

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 Casualties: Operation Overlord by the Numbers

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

25 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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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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Armored in Lorraine: Battle of Arracourt

American tanks and artillery wreaked havoc on newly created German panzer formations during the Battle of Arracourt in September 1944.

23 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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Captured! Belgium’s Mighty Fort Eben-Emael

How did the World’s first gliderborne assault grab the world's strongest fortress?

22 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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Alvan Gillem’s Invasion of Germany

General Alvan C. Gillem led the hard-charging XIII Corps across the Rhine into the heart of Nazi Germany.

22 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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Patton’s Bloody Battle at Fortress Metz

In the autumn of 1944, Third Army’s eastward dash ran into well-entrenched Germans and miserable weather at Europe’s strongest fortress.

21 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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The Imperial War Museum

London’s Imperial War Museum is a “must-see” on any visit to England.

21 January 2019

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New Years Battle at Ludweiler: Delaying Operation Nordwind

American mechanized cavalrymen fought a heroic delaying action against the German Nordwind offensive during the winter of 1944.

21 January 2019

Carl Gnam

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