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 »

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

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.   More »

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

Using speed and daring, Panzer leader Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz achieved multiple victories on the Eastern Front in World War II.   More »

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

In April 1945, as the Allies crushed Nazi Germany from all sides, the Reich that Hitler boasted would last for a thousand years was about to expire.   More »

Hobart’s Funnies were modified Churchill and Sherman tanks with odd-looking features used to support the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944.   More »

Emperor Charlemagne’s Holy Roman Empire with its capital at Aachen, lasted 1,000 years. Hitler Insisted on a fanatical defense of the legacy city.   More »

In 1945, an unconventional alliance between the Wehrmacht and American forces helped to lift the siege of Castle Itter by the SS.   More »