The Malmedy Massacre, sometimes also known as the Baugnez Massacre, was an incident during World War II in which 84 American prisoners of war were killed by Kampfgruppe Peiper after being captured. This event was later classified as a war…
The Big Red One wasn’t the only unit during Operation Overlord and D-Day whose regiment was overshadowed by the so-called Band of Brothers. Easy Company, the Screaming Eagles, cast a long shadow over Operation Overlord. The 526th Armored Infantry Battalion…
The Red Ball Express is generally well known in the history of the Second World War. A film of the same name has even been made about it. Yet the impact of the Red Ball Express is sometimes forgotten. It…
After the horrors of Stalingrad, the collapse of the Eastern Front, Operation Bagration, and the aftermath of the Allied landings on the Western Front during D-Day, Hitler was ready to make his final desperate move: the Volkssturm. The Volkssturm was…
