Soon after midnight, the cabin door of a C-135 Stratolifter slammed shut behind Major General Edwin Burba, commander of the U.S. Army’s “Hell on Wheels” 2nd Armored Division. Slowly the giant jet ...
In September 1944, as Patton’s advance tore across France, Germany rushed its new 112th Panzer Brigade into battle. The unit halted in a low valley near Dompaire, unaware that Leclerc’s French 2nd ...