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

During the Battle of the Bulge, the German offensive spanned across a roughly ... Universal News released this clip on Jan. 11, 1945, reporting on the Battle of the Bulge in Europe.

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 ...

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 ...