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World War II Jon Guttman |
Closing the Falaise Pocket In August 1944, the Germans fought desperately to hold open their last escape route from Normandy while the Polish 1st Armored and the U.S. 90th Infantry divisions fought equally hard to close it.  |
World War II Gary Schreckengost |
Buying Time At The Battle Of The Bulge Outnumbered and outgunned, the men of the 110th Infantry Regiment upset the German timetable during the Battle of the Bulge.  |
World War II November 17, 2004 Martin F. Graham |
High Tide at Bastogne In stopping the last major German assault against Bastogne, the veteran gunners of the 463rd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion proved their skill to skeptical troops of the 101st Airborne Division.  |
World War II Ralph E. Hersko, Jr. |
Winter Fury Near Elsenborn Ridge The heroic American stand at the towns of Krinkelt and Rocherath slowed the German advance in the Battle of the Bulge.  |
World War II March 2006 |
Battle of the Bulge: Robert Walter's Baptism of Fire Swept up in the largest American campaign of the war in Europe, Robert Walter remembers the Battle of the Bulge as a series of small dramas that played themselves out in the wooded hills near Elsenborn Ridge.  |
Military History September 2006 Douglas Mastriano |
Alvin York and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive German records reveal the view from the receiving end of Corporal Alvin C. York's torrent of bullets on October 8, 1918 during World War I.  |
World War II Michael Reynolds |
Massacre at Malmedy By carefully separating fact from fiction, a clearer picture emerges of the events surrounding the infamous execution of American POWs during the Battle of the Bulge.  |
World War II August 2006 Jonathan W. Jordan |
Operation Bagration: Soviet Offensive of 1944 Operation Bagration, the Soviet offensive of 1944, made the Normandy landings look like a mere scuffle -- in size, scope, and results!  |
World War II Stanley A. Frankel |
Battle for Bougainville: Hell on Hill 700 Losing Hill 700 to the Japanese meant defeat for the American forces on Bougainville. To the men of the 37th Infantry Division, that was unthinkable.  |
Military History July 2005 Pierre Comtois |
Battle for Baku On the plains of Central Asia, the men of 'Dunsterforce' fought Germans, Turks, Bolsheviks and Persian warlords with equal verve.  |
America's Civil War Robert Collins Suhr |
Little Phil Sheridan Wins His Spurs At an obscure railroad station in northern Mississippi, an equally obscure Union cavalry colonel faced a personal and professional moment of truth. His name was Phil Sheridan, and his coolness and dash clearly marked him for bigger things.  |
Civil War Times December 2005 Eric Ethier |
The Battle of Wilson's Creek The Battle of Wilson's Creek helped to keep a critical border state out of the Confederacy.  |
World War II April 22, 2004 Zabecki & Wooster |
Herrlisheim: Death of an American Combat Command With their backs to the wall, German troops fought ferociously against the American VI Corps in and around a small Alsatian village.  |
World War II December 2006 Mark J. Reardon |
Battle of the Hurtgen Forest: The 9th Infantry Division Suffered in the Heavily Armed Woods The bitter and bloody experience of the 9th Infantry Division in the Hurtgen Forest in autumn 1944 should have been enough to warn Allied leaders that the German army wasn't finished just yet.  |
World War II Jon Latimer |
Hitler's Boy Soldiers in Normandy In the summer of 1944, the 12th SS Hitlerjugend Panzer Division threw itself against the mighty Allied onslaught.  |
World War II Sherwood S. Cordier |
Red Star vs. the Rising Sun The undeclared conflict between the Soviet Union and imperial Japan at Khalkhin Gol cast a long shadow on subsequent events in the Pacific theater and on the Russian Front.  |
Military History Quarterly Ronald R. Gilliam |
Turning Point of the Mexican Revolution General Alvaro Obregon and his Constitutionalist army proved more than a match for Pancho Villa's undefeated Division del Norte in the April 1915 battles at Celaya.  |
World War II William Brooks |
Black Tuesday: The Struggle for a Bridge Too Far The fate of the embattled paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge rested with the men of the South Staffords.  |
Vietnam February 2008 John E. Gross |
Tet Offensive: The Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh One rifle company's wild ride into the first hours of Tet.  |
America's Civil War David A. Norris |
Bloody Day at Boteler's Ford Just two days after the Battle of Antietam, the deadliest day of the Civil War, the savage Battle of Shepherdstown made for a bloody little coda to the 1862 Maryland campaign.  |
Vietnam February 2006 John E. Gross |
The Tet Battles of Bien Hoa and Long Binh The 9th Infantry Division's 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry, fought for control of Bien Hoa and Long Binh on the first day of 1968's Tet Offensive.  |
World War II June 8, 2004 Michael Haskew |
Holding the Line Along Hell's Highway As the 101st secured Eindhoven and Veghel at the start of Operation Market-Garden, its battles in Holland were only just beginning.  |
World War II February 2006 Jonathan North |
Soviet Prisoners of War: Forgotten Nazi Victims of World War II For more than 60 years, the Wehrmacht has largely escaped scrutiny for its part in the deaths of more than 3.5 million Soviet prisoners of war.  |
Military History Quarterly Summer 2004 John M. Taylor |
World War II: 101st Airborne Division Participate in Operation Overlord In their baptism of fire, the green paratroopers of General Maxwell Taylor's 101st Airborne Division performed like seasoned veterans in Operation Overlord.  |
World War II May 25, 2004 George J. Winter Sr. |
Breakout From Normandy In July 1944, panzer commander Fritz Langanke struggled to guide his tank out of the Roncey Pocket and the maelstrom enveloping German forces trapped in it.  |
World War II March 2, 2005 Oscar Friedensohn |
GI's Bloody Rhine River Crossing A combat engineer will never forget the day he led an assault boat across the Rhine River and into the teeth of the German defenses at St. Goarshausen.  |
World War II Flint Whitlock |
Allied Agony at Anzio The daring seaborne operation was planned as a way of outflanking German strength on Italy's Gustav Line and swiftly capturing Rome, but almost nothing went according to plan.  |
Vietnam August 2007 Mark Bernstein |
Vietnam War: Operation Dewey Canyon One of the most successful offensives of the Vietnam War was also one of its most controversial.  |
Military History Quarterly Noah Andre Trudeau |
'The Fort's Our Own!' Relying on cold steel and the cover of darkness, General Anthony Wayne's elite Light Corps seized British-held Stony Point, New York, in one of the most daring operations of the Revolutionary War.  |
Vietnam John C. McManus |
Battleground Saigon During the Tet Offensive in 1968, the 7th Infantry Regiment fought a World War II-style urban battle in the South Vietnamese capital.  |
Vietnam February 2007 James I. Marino |
Attack on Quang Tri City During the Vietnam War Like Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, Quang Tri City was a vital communications crossroads that the enemy had to take in January of 1968.  |
Civil War Times Thomas T. Taylor |
Eyewitness to the Battle of Atlanta Among the blue-clad soldiers moving against Atlanta in late July 1864 was Major Thomas T. Taylor of Georgetown, Ohio. In these passages from the letter he wrote to his wife, Netta, he described what he saw, experienced, and did during the Battle of Atlanta.  |
Military History Quarterly Noah Andre Trudeau |
Charles Lee's Disgrace at the Battle of Monmouth Charles Lee's military credentials were solid. But his failure to coordinate subordinates led to a crucial breakdown at the Battle of Monmouth, and a rare public rebuke from George Washington.  |
Civil War Times September 2006 Ted Alexander |
Battle of Antietam: Two Great American Armies Engage in Combat The opposing armies at Antietam were two very different forces commanded by two very different men.  |
Vietnam June 28, 2004 Thomas E. Faley |
Operation Marauder: Allied Offensive in the Mekong Delta On New Year's Day 1966, with Australian and New Zealand combat forces attached, the 173rd Airborne Brigade struck VC positions in the Mekong Delta.  |
World War II May 25, 2004 Frederick & Masci |
2nd Ranger Battalion Takes Pointe-du-Hoc U.S. Army General Omar Bradley described the attack on the German gun battery at Pointe-du-Hoc on D-Day as the most difficult mission he had ever given any soldiers in his command.  |
America's Civil War Brent L. Vosburg |
Cavalry Clash at Hanover Southern beau sabreur J.E.B. Stuart hardly expected to run head-on into enemy cavalry on his second ride around the Union Army. But a trio of 'boy generals' would soon give the famed Confederate horseman all the action he could handle.  |
America's Civil War Robert C. Cheeks |
Nothing But Glory Gained On a hot July afternoon, 12,000 Southern soldiers started across an airless valley toward bristling enemy lines a mile away. For a moment, time stood still. The fate of two nations hung in the balance. Then the shooting began.  |
Civil War Times August 2005 John Cabell Early |
A Southern Boy Remembers Gettysburg Major General Jubal Early's nephew recalls the famous meeting on July 1 between his uncle and General Robert E. Lee during the 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania.  |
World War II August 25, 2004 Colonel William Wilson |
Ambitious Airborne Assault: Operation Market Garden It was hoped that Operation Market Garden would shorten the war, but the largest airborne operation of World War II failed in its main objectives.  |
World War II May 25, 2004 Kevin R. Austra |
Desperate Hours on Omaha Beach As soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division leaped from their landing craft into the choppy waters off Omaha Beach, many cursed the landing-craft pilots who had deposited them too far away from the invasion beach.  |
World War II March 2007 John C. McManus |
Battle of the Bulge: 687th Field Artillery Battalion's Stand at the Crossroads Cafe An Alamo stand by ragtag remnants of the 687th Field Artillery Battalion helped slow the juggernaut at the Battle of the Bulge.  |
Vietnam David T. Zabecki |
Battle for Saigon In the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Viet Cong prepared carefully for its objectives inside the "Saigon Circle." The result would be a plethora of battles -- and battles within battles.  |
Wild West December 6, 2004 Wayne R. Austerman |
Bold Rally Against the Odds at Fort Lancaster Captain William Frohock, Lieutenant Frederick Smith and the black troopers of Company K, 9th Cavalry, received an after-Christmas surprise from Kickapoo raiders in 1867.  |
Military History Quarterly Thomas Fleming |
Old Hickory's Finest Hour In January 1815, General Andrew Jackson led a menagerie of American defenders against some of the British Empire's finest soldiers in a battle that would determine the future of America.  |
America's Civil War September 2007 |
Antietam Eyewitness Accounts Quotes from soldiers who experienced the carnage of the single bloodiest day in American history.  |
Vietnam August 24, 2004 Al Hemingway |
Harvey Barnum: Medal of Honor Recipient In-country for just two weeks, artillery forward observer Harvey Barnum assumed command of Hotel Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, during a Viet Cong ambush. Here, he talks about his experiences during two Vietnam tours.  |
World War II November 2006 David P. Colley |
African American Platoons in World War II In March 1945, black volunteers forced the first breach in the U.S. Army's color barrier -- the first black soldiers officially serving shoulder to shoulder with whites in an American infantry unit since George Washington was in command of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.  |
Vietnam April 2006 Kelly Bell |
Deadly Sapper Attack on Fire Support Base Mary Ann "I never said anything to Doyle about that dog being on alert, but I should have known. It bothered me for years and years. It was my second tour. I should have known."  |
World War II Bart Hagerman |
Airborne Bridge Across the Rhine Paratroopers from two Allied divisions were droppped east of the great natural barrier, penetrating into Germany itself.  |