western front Archives

U.S. serviceman helped liberate Nazi concentration camp

June 4, 2020

For nearly four decades, Al Ungerleider dedicated his life to serving his country. He was an infantry officer who saw active combat in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, rising to the rank of brigadier general.

Ungerleider expe…

The last stand of 3/395: how one US Army battalion helped win the Battle of the Bulge

April 29, 2020

By Kyle Nelson

By December 1944, Allied armies had reached the western border of Germany itself. The US Army’s 99th Infantry Division, recently arrived in Europe and untested in combat, was assigned to the northern “shoulder” of the Allied front line in the Ard…

The women who volunteered to make donuts on the front lines of World War I

April 29, 2020

By Megan Miller

Over the last century, there have been some crazy deliveries made to war zones to raise morale—usually beer. Whether it’s the