The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.
At the heart of the battle against the U-boat killing machines of the Kriegsmarine – the German navy - was a small city in ...
Paratroopers were snapped for a newspaper early on the morning of 24 March 1945, drinking tea before getting into planes to ...
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 ...
To the Germans now, each week of war was a week of reprieve ... the fifth front had been joined in the sky. The German command did not need a Yalta communiqué to know that the Allies had chosen ...
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 ...
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.