A SERGEANT’S LAST STAND
Peter Schrijvers2017-08-29T18:45:07+02:00On 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 [...]