“I didn’t get frightened until three weeks after it had begun, when I began to read the American papers and found … how near we were to being whipped,” President Dwight D. Eisenhower confessed at a ...

Christmas includes the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle fought by the United States. The battle was hell on earth. On Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi Germany launched an enormous ...

2016-11-05T18:34:36-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/b6e/20161105183736002_hd.jpgLeo Barron talked about his book Patton at the Battle of the Bulge: How the ...

The Midland National Guards were first organized shortly after World War I ended in 1918, and they played a pivotal role in World War II from 1941 to 1945. Federalized when war appeared imminent in ...

The Battle of the Bulge was the last German offensive of World War II, and the Siege of Bastogne the scene of a heroic defence by American paratroopers. Seventy-five years on, the Belgian town is ...

When he looks back on his memories of World War II, Harry Whisler always mentions the 2,000-year-old Roman Bridge in Trier, Germany, where he brushed shoulders with Gen. George S. Patton in 1945.

On this day to honor veterans, I’m taking a day away from writing about policy and politics that affect California, although you will find other posts on California issues on our site today. Despite ...

A two-week convoy of vintage World War II vehicles concluded Sunday on the streets of Bastogne, Belgium, a fitting way to end a rolling tour of the route taken by Gen. George S. Patton’s 3rd ...

In the frozen Ardennes woods near Bastogne, Hitler’s famed 1st SS Panzer Division ‘Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler’ advanced into the villages of Lutrebois and Villers‑la‑Bonne‑Eau, clashing with tanks ...

The battlefield east of Celles was a white silence, darkly blotched with corpses and wreckage. At Celles, three miles short of the Meuse River, the German spearhead which had reached 50 miles into ...

They are gone now. The young men. The old men they turned into. The men who served in the Midland National Guard. The men who once played a major role in World War II. This is their story. They were ...