The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history ...

Yet there was still no sign of German collapse. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had learned his lesson, said to correspondents in Paris: “If the German continues to show the spirit he has now ...

16, 1944, more than 200,000 German troops and nearly 1,000 ... Universal News released this clip on Jan. 11, 1945, reporting on the Battle of the Bulge in Europe. BC In 1945, the War Department ...

The U.S. had claimed 90.000 enemy casualties in the battle of the Ardennes. Allowing 10,000 men to a division, the U.S. and Russian claims together equaled 67 German divisions. Perhaps the figures ...

For the Rainbow Division, their attack would lead into Germany and capture the cities of Wurzburg, Schweinfurt, Furth, Nuremberg, Dachau and Munich before the war ended in May of 1945. Read next ...

The German people had suffered terribly during both the First World War and the Depression and a huge part of the Nazis’ appeal was that they promised to make Germany’s economy strong again.