June 6th, 1944. 9:00 in the morning. Southwick House, Portsmouth, England. The sound is controlled chaos. Typewriters clatter. Phones ring constantly. Officers move quickly but purposefully through corridors lined with...
The comment was made at a planning session for Operation Overlord at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in Portsouth. And it wasn’t meant as an insult. Just give that sector...
By the end of June 1944, the Allied operation in Normandy had achieved something that no military planner in 1943 had dared to predict. 875,000 soldiers, 148,000 vehicles, and 570,000...
There is a moment in December 1944, somewhere in the snow-covered forests of eastern Belgium, when a German SS officer stands in [music] the middle of an American fuel depot...
A storm has erupted around the Ottawa Senators after former NHL star Keith Tkachuk delivered a blunt and controversial assessment of the team’s handling of his son, Brady Tkachuk. In...
A storm has erupted around the Ottawa Senators after former NHL star Keith Tkachuk delivered a blunt and controversial assessment of the team’s handling of his son, Brady Tkachuk. In...
December 21st, 1944. 0530 hours. The frozen darkness outside Domkinbach, Belgium. A German SS officer studied the American positions through his field glasses. The snow-covered ridge ahead looked quiet, peaceful,...
At 8:15 on the morning of December 19th, 1944, Sergeant William Buck Anderson lay prone in a snow-covered Belgian forest, watching 300 German soldiers tighten the encirclement around his isolated...
At 11:47 on the morning of September 17th, 1944, Corporal Daniel Caldwell crouched motionless in thick jungle undergrowth on Pelleu Island, watching three Japanese soldiers pass within 15 yardds of...
April 14th, 1945, near Vimar, Germany. Cold spring rain drifted across a muddy Allied prisoner collection point carved into the edge of a shattered German airfield. Burned out hangers leaned...