by Jim Lankford On 30 April, 1945 the New York Times reported: “Huge Prison Camp Liberated…27,000 American and British prisoners of war at a large camp at Moosburg.” The report was correct, the camp was huge, but it was also wrong. The following day, the Times printed a correction: “The Fourteenth Armored Division liberated 110,000 …
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By Matthew J. Seelinger In the years prior to World War II, the U.S. Army began to develop the concept of deploying troops from the air. Starting with the formation of the Parachute Test Platoon on 26 June 1940, the Army experimented with and developed airborne doctrine, deploying soldiers by parachute and by glider behind …
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By Robert S. Rush On 16 November 1944, the 4th Infantry Division attacked into the Hurtgen Forest as one of the ten divisions participating in Operation Queen, a combined offensive by the First and Ninth U.S. Armies to seize the Rhine River crossings into Germany. As one of the infantry regiments of the 4th Division, …
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By Shruti Chaganti, AHF Intern Friedel Yachet Schlanger was born into a Jewish family in 1913 in Lodz, Poland. As a child she witnessed the horrors of World War I. When she was seven, she immigrated with her family to the United States, where her name was changed to Frances Slanger. As she grew older, …
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