On Dec. 16 1944, German artillery opened fire on an inexperienced American division that had been at the front for less than a week. Within 72 hours, two entire regiments of the 106th Infantry ...
This attack was Adolf Hitler’s last attempt to turn World War II in his favor following the Allied D-Day invasion in June ...
Soldiers of the 28th Infantry Division march down a street in Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Some of these men lost their weapons during the German advance in this area. Army photo. The Battle ...
During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...
Eight decades ago, U.S. Army soldiers raised the American flag in the center of Nuremberg. They stood atop a bunker adorned with Nazi symbols, now in the hands of Allied forces after five days of ...