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 ...
Brig. Gen. Bruce C. Clarke should have been on leave in Paris, enjoying a well-earned break from the nearly constant combat he’d been in since the D-Day breakout in late July launched the Allied sweep ...
MIAMI — At 101, Army veteran Bernard “Barney” Mayrsohn considers himself a lucky man. He has his health, his 77-year-old son, Mark, living nearby, and a comfortable home overlooking Miami’s Bay of ...
CHICAGO -- A poster hangs on the wall of Richard Idstein’s home on this quiet street in a northwest Chicago suburb. It says Bataille Des Ardennes in bold black letters with the years 1944 and 1994 ...
Under artillery fire in frozen Belgium, combat medics established battlefield medicine standards still used today.
Robert "Bob" Woods enlisted in the 106th Infantry Division in 1944 at the age of 20 and left home to fight on German battlefields. His battalion encountered heavy fire from the Germans on Dec. 14, ...
William R. Schaffner, a computer analyst and World War II veteran who fought at the Battle of the Bulge, died Tuesday from heart failure at Bonnie Blink, the Maryland Masonic Home in Hunt Valley. The ...
BOB WOODS WILL COMMEMORATE THE 78TH ANNIVERSARY OF LIBERATION DAY. THAT’S THE DAY THE BRITISH SEVENTH ARMORED DIVISION FREED HIM FROM A GERMAN P.O.W. CAMP. AND TODAY, MR. WOODS WAS THE ONE BEING ...
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