In 1944, Germany launched its last desperate offensive in the West, led by the elite 1st SS Panzer Division and Kampfgruppe ...
In this episode we return to the Ardennes and trace the brutal fighting around Grandménil and Manhay on December 24-26, 1944, ...
BAfA"TGENBACH, Belgium (Army News Service, Dec. 14, 2007) - Mass formations of German armored vehicles and infantry quietly gathered along the Belgium and Luxembourg border, preparing for Nazi Germany ...
RALEIGH, N.C. - On this Veterans Day, like in the past, our nation asks her citizens to take time out of their day to honor, thank, spend some time with and sincerely recognize the service and ...
Gert Hartwig Pries 1944. On his uniform he wears the EK 11 Class ribbon and Wound Badge in black and the Panzerkampf Abzeichen. SS-Sturmann Gert Hartwig Pries "My training lasted from 9th January 1943 ...
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Fusilier Piper John Hardie (1920-85), Corps. Commander's Parade, Landesbergen, Germany, September 1946. The Road to Calvary At 0415 on the morning of the 25th of June 1944, the British 49th Infantry ...
Three days after the D-Day invasion in June of 1944, the British Army occupied a Normandy mansion called Château d'Audrieu and found a row of 13 Canadian soldiers lying dead along a fence. Beatrice ...