January 1945 saw a new battle at the Colmar Pocket in eastern France where future Hollywood star Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in World War II, earned a Medal of Honor. In the Pacific theater, U.S. forces landed on Luzon and began the long and hard advance...
December 1944 was a terrible month for American forces in World War II. There were tragic massacres of POWs in Belgium and the Philippines. Bad weather added to the woes. The worst news came December 16 when German forces made a surprise attack in Belgium. (View a PDF...
The month of November saw progress across all the fronts of the war. In Northern Belgium, British and Canadian forces focused their efforts on opening the key port of Antwerp, Belgium. Meanwhile, in eastern France, General George Patton’s Third Army crossed the...
U.S. forces reached and defeated German forces in the city Aachen, Germany in one of the largest urban battles fought by U.S. forces in World War II. The campaign in the Hurtgen Forest proved much more difficult and costly as the German Army stalled a U.S. advance and...
U.S. progress in the Pacific theater included a hard fought victory over Japanese forces on the island of Peleliu and the building of the largest Naval base in history on the island of Ulithi, which quickly became the forward staging base for future invasions in the...
August brought good news of a new amphibious landing in France and military progress in both the European and Pacific theaters of the war. On August 10, the island of Guam was liberated by American Army and Marine Corps troops after landing there on July 21. Allied...
