At 9 a.m. on Oct. 2, 1944, under an overcast sky, the assault on German ground positions began. Two pillboxes provided much of the opposition in Palenberg, Germany. In June, Allied forces had landed ...

In airborne operations vaster than those of D-Day, Gen. Eisenhower committed his parachute and glider troops to action in Holland yesterday "or the first time under their new unified command, while ...

WAUPACA, Wis. (WBAY) - A local veteran who served in World War II and was a prisoner of war celebrated his 100th birthday on Sunday. Family in Waupaca County tell us that James Gilles entered the army ...

The 21st Theater Sustainment Command conducted a staff ride of the Siegfried Line Campaign on May 2-5, 2023 to develop the general staff’s understanding of sustainment and operational maneuver. Maj.

1944: During World War II, U.S. Army troops cracked the Siegfried Line north of Aachen, Germany. 1990: West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar ...

It was March 18, 1945, and Walter J. Stoudenmire of Orangeburg was facing the vaunted Siegfried Line — the fortified belt of trenches, barbed wire, pillboxes, concrete barriers and bunkers that marked ...

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