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...
Following their landing at Normandy, U.S. forces attempted to punch through the hedgerows of Normandy, a difficult undertaking as German forces were well-hidden and put-up stiff resistance. Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, field commander of American soldiers in...
The month of June 1944 began with the news of victory for the Allies in Italy as the city of Rome was liberated from German control by the US Fifth Army on June 4. The attention and celebration were short-lived however as all eyes and ears quickly turned to Normandy,...
