Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky ones. On that Christmas Eve in 1944, a German U-boat torpedo killed 763 American soldiers just five miles from ...

In December 1944, the United States was still very much in the middle of World War II. The June 6 landings in Normandy were fresh in the minds of troops on the ground and Americans back home, but ...

The 1944 Army-Navy game was dubbed the "game of the century" by some journalists. (Special Collections & Archives Department, Nimitz Library, U.S. Naval Academy) By 1944 the United States had entered ...

As the Red Army advanced west after the destruction of Army Group Center, Soviet forces encircled and captured Vilnius in ...

For the average American, the Army-Navy football game is normally a curiosity at best and an afterthought at worst. On Dec. 2, 1944, however, the Black Knights and Midshipmen clashed in a matchup that ...

Soldiers of the 28th Infantry Division march down a street in Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Some of these men lost their weapons during the German advance in this area. The Battle of the Bulge ...

At the beginning of 1944 six divisions of the German Army Group South, some 56,000 men, were encircled by the Russian Army.

CHARLESTON — One of the last times Pfc. Hubert Smoak wrote home to the family farm in Colleton County, he said he was prepared to fight. Just as importantly, the 28-year-old Army soldier told his ...

Amid this backdrop came the game of the century that, albeit briefly, delivered a respite from the far-flung battles across the globe and drew attention back to a good, old-fashioned American football ...