In the winter of 1944, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old then-1st Sgt. Jefferson Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers, were tasked with ...
Remembering the Wereth 11: Longview soldier among those killed in little-known World War II massacre
It was Dec. 17, 1944, and the Battle of the Bulge – one of the bloodiest, coldest battles of World War II – raged on for the second day. German bombing in Belgium had caused American forces to sustain ...
The removal by a U.S. military cemetery in the Netherlands of two displays recognizing Black troops who fought in World War ...
Karen Finnerty didn’t know much about her late father’s time in World War II. And since his passing, Finnerty has searched for more ways to connect with her dad and his military service. She never ...
As the city of Aachen, once the seat of power of the emperor Charlemagne, lay in ruins in World War II’s bitterest winter, an American soldier worked feverishly alongside German civilians to make sure ...
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