The Ruhr Pocket campaign of April 1945 ended Germany's hopes—and established the US Army.

Bradley W. Hart is a World War II Military Historian at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. 

The US 30th Infantry Division receives the Presidential Unit Citation in honor of its heroism at the Battle of Mortain, August 1944.

A night of horror, and the worst maritime disaster of all time.

Arriving in London in January 1944, Eisenhower assembles the strategic and tactical staff that will execute Operation Overlord.