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They fought at the Battle of the Bulge, helped relieve Bastogne and assisted in the penetration of Germany's Siegfried Line. By the time World War II was over, the 761st had pushed all the way ...
Operation Market Garden was the Allied operation to end the Second World War by Christmas 1944. The brainchild of Bernard ...
Marthe Cohn, a Holocaust survivor and nurse who went behind Germany enemy lines on behalf of French intelligence and helped undermine the German military in the waning days of World War II, died May ...
Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II. ... The Siegfried Line was a defensive perimeter around the western ...
Freeman has set out to make that happen, with a documentary, "761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers," which will air on the History Channel, complete with a cameo appearance by Lloyd ...
How one American World War II veteran stood up for Jewish officers when they were ... the “Golden Lions,” sent to reinforce the offensive against the Siegfried Line. Six days after he ...
An all-Black tank battalion, pivotal in turning back the Battle of the Bulge and breaching the German Siegfried Line, would not see a Presidential Unit Citation until 1979.