Monthly Archives: March 2017

March 2017

A SERGEANT’S LAST STAND

2017-03-24T02:00:27+01:00

On 8 January 1945, Sergeant Charles Carey and the antitank platoon he commanded were attacked by some two hundred German soldiers and a dozen tanks during the ferocious week-long battle for the hamlet of Rimling. The attacks against the 100th Infantry Division’s 397th Regiment were part of Operation Nordwind, the offensive on the German border [...]

A SERGEANT’S LAST STAND2017-03-24T02:00:27+01:00

WILD WEST BASTOGNE

2017-03-20T04:56:26+01:00

On Christmas Eve 1944, describing the dogged determination of the Americans trapped inside Bastogne, Chester Hansen, General Omar Bradley’s aide noted admiringly: “They have stood off overwhelming enemy strength, clinging stubbornly to their positions like a wagon train in the pioneer days of the west.” Army artist Olin Dows was a witness to the epic [...]

WILD WEST BASTOGNE2017-03-20T04:56:26+01:00

DID HITLER CAPTURE BASTOGNE?

2019-01-28T23:48:04+01:00

McAuliffe would have rejected this as nuts. And Bulge followers who have carefully read my book on the battle for Bastogne in the winter of 1944-45 must think that they have missed something vital or that I am taking them for a ride. You have not. And I am. That said, Hitler did capture Bastogne. [...]

DID HITLER CAPTURE BASTOGNE?2019-01-28T23:48:04+01:00

MAGGIE THE GREEK

2017-03-01T02:51:46+01:00

James ‘Maggie’ Megellas, son of Greek immigrant parents who settled in Wisconsin, began his World War II career as a platoon leader in H Company, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment. He quickly rose to become H Company’s commander, distinguishing himself at the Anzio beachhead in Italy and the Waal River in Holland. In the [...]

MAGGIE THE GREEK2017-03-01T02:51:46+01:00