Turning Things Around: Patton Takes Over II Corps
The American debacle at the Battle of Kasserine Pass had brought the simmering command crisis of II Corps to a …
The American debacle at the Battle of Kasserine Pass had brought the simmering command crisis of II Corps to a …
Operation 25, the invasion of Yugoslavia, part of Adolf Hitler’s strategic blunder added this Balkan nation and Greece to the …
On Dec. 6, 1946, President Harry S Truman pinned seven medals on the chest of Army Sgt. Llewellyn M. “Al” …
“The biggest and hardest job since the Panama Canal.”
—Maj. Robert W. Madden, describing construction of the Alcan Highway
On …
There were never very many Tiger tanks, less than 1,400 total. They were huge (German crews scornfully called them “furniture …
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., USA (Ret.), died Dec. 27, 2012, in Tampa, Fla., of complications from pneumonia. He was …
“Sixth Army must know that I am doing everything to help and to relieve it. I shall issue my orders …
At the height of the Cold War in the late 1970s, the U.S. Army wanted a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) …
The United States entered World War II 27 months after it began officially with Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in …
The basic parachutist badge worn in the Army today originated in 1941, when America’s soldiers first began qualifying as “airborne” …