To this day, there is only one American-built monument located in any German military cemetery and it stems from a rare act ...
This deep dive explores how the battle unfolded, why Germany's final gamble failed, and how this costly defeat accelerated the collapse of the Third Reich.
Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany ...
In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter, the ...