Normandy American Heroes Blog

Private First Class Weldon E. McClane, memories of WWII in Normandy

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, WWII Engineers Special Brigade, WWII, Cotentin Peninsula, WWII 297th Engineer Battalion The Jack Rabbits

Private First-Class Weldon E. McClane - WIA at Gavray-sur-Sienne

Nowadays to acquire knowledge about a specific subject, we have at our disposal a multitude of resources as books, internet websites, articles and more. But sometimes when these resources talk about a specific subject

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Topics: World War 2, WWII, Cotentin Peninsula, WWII 297th Engineer Battalion The Jack Rabbits

Medal of Honor of Private First Class Frederick Murphy - 19 March 1945

Frederick C. Murphy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 27, 1918, and lived in nearby Quincy.

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, The West Wall, Siegfried Line

Bastogne has had a long tradition of giving out nuts!

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Topics: World War 2, WWII 101st Airborne Division, World War Two, WWII Paratroopers, WWII 4th Infantry Division, Green Hell, Hürtgen Forest

Wacht am Rhein Operation Grief, what’s the name of Mickey Mouse’s dog?

The most important role of Operation Wacht am Rhein falls on the shoulders of the 6th Panzer Army under the orders of Sepp Dietrich, SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer (Supreme Group Leader) and Generaloberst (uppermost General)

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, Heinrich Luitpold Himmler, Reichsführer of the SS

Operation Watch am Rhein, the Schutzstaffel troops lead the offensive!

Premise to Operation Wacht am Rhein

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, Green Hell, Heinrich Luitpold Himmler, Reichsführer of the SS, Hürtgen Forest

First warning signs of the Battle of the Bulge, the Hürtgen forest

At 0530 hours on December 16th, 1944 the final counterattack of the German army took place in the Ardennes forest.

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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, World War Two, Green Hell, Infantry, Hürtgen Forest, The West Wall, Siegfried Line

The Ingenuity of Prisoners of War at Stalag Luft III - solace in Golf!

During the Second World War, prisoners of war had to find ways to pass the time, their main concern was to get their minds off their unfortunate situation with whatever little diversions they could find.

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, WWII, Royal Air Force (RAF), Poland, Ninth Air Force, Eighth Air Force, USAAF, WWII Golf

Berchtesgaden Golf Club under the Eagle's Nest of Hitler in the Alps

Located in Obersalzberg, approximately 900 meters above sea level, Berchtesgaden Golf Club is considered as one of the highest golf clubs in Germany. Remarkably, while golfing, these heights enable you to get a

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, Infantry, 3rd Infantry Division