They were a secret Marine platoon sent ashore before anyone else. Led by Frank Tachsky, these men—many pulled straight from ...
In March 1945, Allied forces reached Germany’s last great natural barrier and crossed it in a way no one expected. This film follows the Rhine crossing through the eyes of German defenders and the ...
As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...
Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...
On Jan. 26, 1945, 19-year-old East Texan Audie Murphy almost single-handedly held off a German counteroffensive in occupied ...