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, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Gen. George S. Patton’s historic schooner returned to its home waters in Salem on Wednesday morning to offer day and sunset ...

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 ...

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 ...