Gen. George Smith Patton Jr. may have been killed in a December 1945 automobile accident in Heidelberg, Germany, and buried alongside his men at the Luxembourg American Cemetery as per his request, ...

A LOCAL history enthusiast has made a dream come true for families of American soldiers.Relatives knew they had camped in Cheshire, preparing ...

“I didn’t get frightened until three weeks after it had begun, when I began to read the American papers and found … how near we were to being whipped,” President Dwight D. Eisenhower confessed at a ...

Prior to World War II, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned himself to finishing out a distinguished but unremarkable military career. By 1943, however, he found himself serving as Supreme Commander, Allied ...

2011-05-28T09:00:17-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/bb6/299500-m.jpg“The General George S. Patton Story” is a biographical film about the American general ...

Known for his work on American armored units in WWII, Yeide combines extensive research in published and archival materials to render a unique sketch of General Patton as seen through the eyes of his ...

THE sun rose slowly, as though rising from a furnace, and then quickly spread its heat across the Sicilian countryside. It was the morning of July 13, 1943, and I was en route by jeep to Gela. As I ...

WAR As I KNEW IT (425 pp.)—General George S. Patton Jr.—Houghton Mifflin ($3.75). ADMIRAL HALSEY’S STORY (310 pp.)—Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey and Lieut. Commander J. Bryan III—Whittlesey ($4).

On this day in El Dorado, history came full circle. The granddaughter of one of America’s most legendary generals sat down ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In time for Veterans Day, Patton Publishing, founded by Helen Patton, announced today the release of Portraits of Service: Looking into the Faces of Veterans, a ...

Whenever I see a transcript of a presidential press conference in the New York Times, I am a little jealous of the reporters who can ask the President of the United States all those questions. Ever ...