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New Years Battle at Ludweiler: Delaying Operation Nordwind
By Patrick J. Chaisson“Lieutenant Rochester, take a look at this.”
The American patrol halted next to an abandoned industrial building. Read more
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“Lieutenant Rochester, take a look at this.”
The American patrol halted next to an abandoned industrial building. Read more
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Background: Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6 was organized in February 1943, under the command of Major Egon Liebach. It was part of the 2nd Fallschirmjäger Division and was stationed in France, where it trained in parachute and glider operations. Read more
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Explosions send fire through the air, aircraft drone overhead, tanks rumble across the cratered ground, and machine guns chatter in murderous conversation on a chaotic battlefield. Read more
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In December 1944 the vaunted Third Reich was in its death throes, crushed by Allied forces on all sides. Read more
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By mid-January 1945, the famous Battle of the Bulge, a massive and fatal failure for the Third Reich, was virtually over. Read more
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On October 18, 1944—the 131st anniversary of the Battle of the Nations’ victory over Napoleon in 1813—Reichsführer-SS (National Leader) Heinrich Himmler stepped up to a microphone to make a national radio address announcing the formation of the Nazi Party-controlled Volkssturm, or People’s Militia. Read more
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The Battle of the Bulge is famously known as the largest battle fought by the U.S. Army in World War II. Read more
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The Battle of Berlin began with what a German colonel called “a dull, continuous roar of thunder from the east.” Read more