In the winter of 1944, American troops faced unimaginable horrors in the Hürtgen Forest. Amidst dense trees, freezing weather, and deadly German defenses, soldiers and medics like Jacob Ruser ...

A tree grows through the remains of a bunker in the Hurtgen Forest, located in west-central Germany, near the borders with Belgium and the Netherlands. The Battle of the Hurtgen Forest took place ...

KILLEEN, Texas — The Army’s 4th Infantry Division landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, and had already suffered several thousand casualties by the time it began the Battle of ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — 1944 in the Hürtgen Forest, American forces met the Germans in a fierce battle that lasted 88 days, the longest World War II battle on German ground. American casualties from the ...

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