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Newly resurfaced testimony from one of Easy Company’s most decorated officers has cast a harsh light on a figure long treated with affection by historians and television audiences alike, revealing that Lieutenant Lynn “Buck” Compton regarded Captain Lewis Nixon as, in his own blunt words, “a prick.” The remarks, captured in a 2007 interview and … Read more

The story of General George S. Patton slamming a revolver onto a desk and threatening to personally shoot an SS general where he stood is one of the most repeated anecdotes of World War II. It has been viewed millions of times across dozens of history channels and retold at countless dinner tables. There is … Read more

Washington, D. C. — Calvin Coolidge Jr. , the 16-year-old son of President Calvin Coolidge, died at 10:30 p. m. on July 7, 1924, in the White House, killed by a staphylococcal infection that entered his bloodstream through a blister raised on his foot during a casual tennis game on the South Lawn just days … Read more

Thousands of German women who served the Nazi war machine as nurses, radio operators, and clerical staff faced a nightmare of double condemnation when captured by Allied forces during World War II, with their stories of suffering remaining buried in historical archives for nearly half a century. Newly examined testimony and declassified military records reveal … Read more

The shattered bridge over the Elbe River at Torgau became the unlikely stage for one of history’s most consequential handshakes on April 25, 1945, when American and Soviet lieutenants met across twisted iron and broken concrete to mark the effective end of World War II in Europe. The American soldiers who reached that bridge belonged … Read more