With Memorial Day tomorrow and Tom Cruise’s latest ‘Mission: Impossible’ film in theaters, we shift the focus from action heroes to real heroes, including the U.S. and Canadian 1st Special Service ...

After that, the unit headed to the desperate Anzio beachhead, where it was assigned ... assigned to lead the landings in Southern France, fighting its way to the France-Italy border.

The Anzio Beachhead resembled the muddy battlefields of World War 1. Muddy trenches, huge artillery craters, and a stalemate reminiscent of the previous conflict. ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines ...

The long, brutal slog through Italy by thousands of British, American, Canadian, Polish, New Zealand and Indian forces divided opinion from the start – amongst the men fighting and those who ...

Seventy years ago today, Nazi Germany was on the verge of collapse after almost six years of fighting that claimed ... the Allied defensive line at the Anzio beachhead. A rifleman with the 3rd ...

The fighting at Biscari Airfield was brutal ... with neither side being able to strike decisively. The area surrounding the Anzio beachhead was flat, with no hills or even rocks to hide behind.

After much heavy and intense fighting, Allied forces captured ... LST-422 attempted to land at the Allied-held beachhead at Anzio on Jan. 26, 1944. High waves postponed the landing and forced ...

After much heavy and intense fighting, Allied forces captured ... LST-422 attempted to land at the Allied-held beachhead at Anzio on Jan. 26, 1944, according to the news release.

As the beachhead dwindled to a few square miles, with only rear guards of the 3rd and 7th Divisions fighting ashore ... A 3rd Division officer called it an “Anzio in reverse”—meaning ...