In August 1944, nearly 700 American infantrymen found themselves encircled on a rocky hill near Mortain. Cut off and under constant attack by Waffen SS units, the defenders of Hill 314 endured five ...
In August 1944, nearly 700 American soldiers were cut off and surrounded on Hill 314 near Mortain. Outnumbered and running out of food and ammunition, the men of the 2nd Battalion, 120th Infantry ...