Last week, my husband handed me a faded, folded copy of the Coeur d’Alene Press. It was dated Sept. 12, 2011. He found the paper among his father’s things. My father-in-law, Maj. Robert “Doug” Wood, ...
August 1944 became Covington County’s deadliest WWII month, as nine local soldiers and airmen—including two Omaha Beach ...
Tributes have been paid following the death of a 101-year-old Normandy veteran who helped liberate France from the Nazis. Richard Aldred, from Callington, served in the 7th Armoured Division and ...
Thousands of years of bagpipe history have spawned countless fantastical tales, including Scottish faeries infusing highland players and their instruments with magic; warriors wielding the haunting, ...
In the autumn of 1944, German forces launched a powerful counterattack in Lorraine, sending Panthers and other armored units against Patton’s advancing army. The U.S. 4th Armored Division faced ...
The former head of the French military mission to the UN has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how long the war in the Middle East could go on. General Dominique Trinquand says the war is now a logistics ...
The Levi’s S506XX 1944 “War Model” is a specialized Type I reproduction featuring the unique and simplified details mandated by World War II resource rationing Historical hallmarks include the ...
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 ...
This episode takes us to the village of Kientzheim in Alsace, where a French M4A3 Sherman from the 5th Armored Division played a central role in the fighting of December 1944. We explore how the tank ...
As President Emmanuel Macron of France visited China, its leader, Xi Jinping, said his country would play a constructive role in ending the fighting. By Vivian Wang Reporting from Beijing During a ...
American soldiers examine weapons and gear abandoned by retreating Germans. (US Army Signal Corps) Gray clouds hung low, and a steady drizzle dripped through the tall fir trees of the Hürtgen Forest ...