•February 12, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
By Richard A. Beranty
The large number of Allied prisoners being funneled south to Rennes, France, following the D-Day invasion swelled the German transit camp to capacity so the decision was made to transport the men to permanent locations inside Germany. They had been captured from all points of the Normandy More »
•February 11, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
By Scott A. Bryan
Late in the evening on D-Day two German soldiers patrolled the outskirts of Colleville-sur-Mer, about one mile from Omaha Beach, and spotted Company C, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division resting in a hedgerow field. Standing on opposite corners, the enemy unleashed machine-gun fire and killed seven Americans. More »
•February 11, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
By Pat McTaggart
Colonel General Walter Model was a rising star in the German Army in early 1943. The son of a music teacher, Model was born on January 24, 1891, in Genthin, Saxony-Anhalt. In 1909, he joined the Kaiser’s army as an officer candidate, but the harsh training almost made More »
•February 10, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
In their first major battles of World War I, American Expeditionary Force troops helped blunt multiple offensives launched by the German Army in the spring of 1918. More »
•February 7, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
By Blaine Taylor
April 1, 1939, was a red-letter day in the history of the reborn German Kriegsmarine for two key reasons. First, Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler presented the fleet’s chief, Erich Raeder, with an ornate, icon-studded Navy blue baton of office as the first grand admiral since the days of More »
•February 7, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
With weapons at the ready, the American squad advanced cautiously on both sides of the tree-lined boulevard toward the German strongpoint in Aachen. Buildings pummeled by Allied shells had toppled to the ground, sending concrete and bricks spilling into the street. Hardly a structure remained intact as a result of More »
•January 25, 2019 • Read Comments (4)
Following his campaign in Western Europe, George S. Patton had difficulty adjusting to peacetime and was fatally injured in an automobile accident. More »
•January 25, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
More than a century of American military history. More »
•January 25, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
A group of Parisian scholars and museum workers were among the first to challenge the Nazis with propaganda and covert operations in occupied France. More »
•January 25, 2019 • Be the First to Comment
French Emperor Napoleon III leda Franco-Sardinian army into northern Italy in the summer of 1859 determined to smite the Austrians. More »
