The Battle of Hürtgen Forest, known in Germany as Schlacht in Hürtgenwald, is the most extended single Battle the US Army has ever fought. It was composed of a series of ambushes, skirmishes, and ...
American soldiers examine weapons and gear abandoned by retreating Germans. (US Army Signal Corps) Gray clouds hung low, and a steady drizzle dripped through the tall fir trees of the Hürtgen Forest ...
The Hürtgen Forest was not a place for maneuver or glory but a ruthless meat grinder that consumed American divisions at a rate unseen in the rest of Western Europe. While the world remembers the ...
VOSSENECK, Germany – In 1939, the world entered WWII, the deadliest war in history sparked by an international conflict between the Axis and Allied powers. The 4th Infantry Division joined the fight ...
In 1944, Pvt. Jacob "Bud" Pennegar was a clerk in an army that desperately needed infantrymen. So three months after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the 19-year-old from Pennsylvania stepped off a ...