Daniels meets an African-American technician, Howard, who helps the platoon contact air support. The platoon captures several German soldiers and discovering that the Germans were ordered to destroy a bridge at Remagen, the last bridge over the Rhine. After destroying the explosives in transit, ...
American involvement in WWII was limited: The military contributed materials and financial support to Great Britain, the Republic of China, and the Soviet Union. Expecting eventual involvement, however, the U.S. was also beginning to strengthen its own military forces. FromJune of 1940 through Dec...
1942. The American government spent colossal amounts of money on the effort and assumed a wartime economy. American businesses, farmers, and factory workers all contributed. Toward the end of the year, it was mandatory for all men between the ages of 18 and 64 to register for the draft, t...
1942. The American government spent colossal amounts of money on the effort and assumed a wartime economy. American businesses, farmers, and factory workers all contributed. Toward the end of the year, it was mandatory for all men between the ages of 18 and 64 to register for the draft, t...
hands. Major Paul A. Putnam, knocked to the ground in the melee, fired his .45 pistol at two Japanese soldiers at such close range that one slumped dead across him. A Japanese soldier saw one Marine “blaze away with a machine gun from his hip as they do in American gangster films....
Robert Capa(American-Hungarian, 1913-1954) Drivers from the French ambulance corps near the front, waiting to be called Italy, 1944 Original album – Italy. Cassino Campaign. W.W.II. © 2001 By Cornell Capa, Agentur Magnum Susan Meiselas(American, b. 1948) ...
Margaret thought it only fair to break off the engagement. She retired from the navy with the honorary rank of Lieutenant Commander and was awarded the American Defense Service Medal with one bronze star, the Asiatic-Pacific Area campaign medical with one bronze star, the Army Distinguished Unit...
Marc Fogel is “the other American” imprisoned in Russia on minor drug charges. He previously taught history at the international Anglo-American School in Moscow, and was well-known and well-thought-of by diplomats not only from the U.S. but also from Great Britain, Canada, and elsewhere...
The offensive was the largest of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I and is largely credited with ushering in the end of the war on Nov. 11, 1918. [Pictured: U.S. Marines during the Meuse-Argonne Campaign] 1919: Treaty of Versailles Public Domain 1919: Treaty of Versailles ...
It’s the rest of his squad that drives the narrative, though, from the Jewish-American smartass buddy who sticks by your side through it all, to the conflicted Sergeant who’s trying to redeem his past on the backs of you and your squadmates. As the group fights their way throu...