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NY Times best-selling author of The Bedford Boys, The Longest Winter, #TheLiberator etc. Public speaker, journalist and tour leader. Historian @WWIIMemorial
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RIP Woody Williams, the last surviving MOH recipient from WW2. All gone. All 472.
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RIP, Simone Segouin, 97, died yesterday, proud member of the French resistance, famously photographed by Robert Capa and others in August 1944, aged 18, as she liberated Paris.
Never to be forgotten.
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RIP Louis Conter, died today, 102, last survivor of 335 from the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. All gone.
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Please like if you agree this is the best WWII documentary series ever made.
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An important anniversary to note: 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the broadcast of this landmark series. The music alone is hauntingly beautiful. Rewatching the series, still amazed by the interviews.
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And then there were none. RIP Brad Freeman, last surviving member of E Company, last of the legendary Band of Brothers.
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"I was a Combat Engineer. Isn’t that ridiculous? The two things I hate most in the world are combat and engineering." Happy 94th birthday corporal Mel Brooks, Battle of Bulge Jewish veteran, combat engineer 78th Inf. Div..
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"We live in a free world today because in 1945 the forces of imperfect goodness defeated the forces of near perfect-evil." French consulate official addressing US veterans.
So many men, all gone, remembered today, who gave everything for us.
Never forget them.
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RIP George Patton. Died today, aged 60. One of the greatest generals in US history.
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Not often you get to raise a toast with 1932 Armagnac to the US Army with Charles Shay, last living medic from Omaha Beach on D Day. In Normandy just now.
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The first. Eighty years ago almost to the hour the first American boys began the long bloody quest to set millions free and defeat Nazism during Operation Torch.
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Last of the greatest. Some of the less than 120 thousand members of Greatest Generation who served in WW2.
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on Pearl Harbor Day.
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Looking forward to hanging out with 98-year-old Charles Shay, photographed here yesterday, thought to be last living Omaha Beach medic from Big Red One, and Korean War veteran.
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Michael Daly, resigned from West Point, which he loathed for its hazing, to go fight as a private in WWII. Received MOH aged 21 as a captain after leading men to heart of Third Reich. Returned to US severely wounded. A star of my next book.
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Remigo Cabacar, 97, joined navy aged 16, served in WW2 and Korea, father survived Bataan death march. He’s right now at
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for 81st anniversary of fall of Baatan with other Filipinos.
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Wishing Dachau liberator Dan Dougherty, C Co., 157th, 45th Div., 98, all the best as he attends commemorative ceremonies in Germany. He was just 19 when he entered Dachau. Safe travels home Dan.
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Thinking of Major General John Raaen, HQ Co. 5th Ranger Battalion in May 1944, thought to be last living officer to fight on Omaha Beach on D Day. He's 101 and counting!
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Remembering Paul Douglas, oldest recruit at age 50 in Marine Corps history, fighting today on Okinawa.
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Remembering the greatest US correspondent of WWII, killed today in 1945. Here's my appreciation for
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“We live in a free world today because in 1945 the forces of imperfect goodness defeated near perfect evil.” Dachau. Why we fought. Never forget.
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The last Marine flyboy. RIP Samuel Folsom, passed aged 102, the last surviving Marine pilot who eighty years ago today helped turn the tide of the Pacific war. Please support
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so we can make sure such heroes are never ever forgotten.
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RIP Tom Rice, Screaming Eagle, passed aged 101, D Day, Market Garden, Bastogne, Berchtesgaden. History teacher for more than four decades.
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Today in 1945, Lt. Vernon Baker "eliminated three enemy machineguns, an observation post, and a dugout. 19 of the 25 men in Baker's platoon were killed." His DSC for this action was upgraded to the MOH which he received in 1997.
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US liberators, Battle of the Bulge. There were some 19,000 Americans killed in the deadliest battle for US in WWII.
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This Saturday, a real legend, live - Charles Shay, 99, last living medic from Omaha Beach on D Day. Native American. Served in Korea too. Native American. LEGEND. 12pm Eastern.
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Faces of the greatest. Four WW2 veterans
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today on Pearl Harbor Day. Of a dozen or so in attendance, only one could walk to lay a wreath.
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Remembering President Gerald Ford, passed away today in 2006, saw more action in WW2 than any US President - 9 campaigns in the Pacific - and restored decency and civility to the White House.
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The World at War. Wow! "Perhaps the time for thinking is over." Episode 1 of 26. You can watch along with me here: . All comments welcome! Just 25 episodes to go...
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The most aggressive and feared US general of the 20th Century, the only one prepared to react this evening in Europe to the greatest surprise attack on American troops in WW2. Learn more tomorrow am .
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Easy Red, Omaha. A place of immense courage and sacrifice for 1st ID on D Day.
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With Paul Priest, last living soldier to take the Ludendorff Bridge. A superstar. Feel so so blessed to meet this 99 year old hero who helped end WW2 in Europe with sheer guts. They are so few left but they are giants, the greatest.
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Remembering Audie Murphy, died today, a hero in my book, Against All Odds.
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A January superstar.
Colonel Jimmy Stewart receiving Croix de Guerre with palm, January 1944. Twenty combat missions, returned to the US aged 37 looking 50 years old because of PTSD, feared Hollywood career was over...then cast in It's A Wonderful Life.
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Monty and Patton. Eighty years ago today, Monty arrived in Britain to begin preparations for D Day.
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Thanks General, thought to be last living officer to land on Omaha Beach, headed this evening into rough waters.
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Thinking of Major General John Raaen, HQ Co. 5th Ranger Battalion in May 1944, thought to be last living officer to fight on Omaha Beach on D Day. He's 101 and counting!
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Today in 1945, in the ruins of Nuremberg, 20-year-old Michael Daly, A Co. commander, 15th Inf., 3rd ID, earned one of the last MOHs to be awarded in WWII in Europe. He's a star of my book, Against All Odds, published in paperback next week.
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General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., 56, being laid to rest today in 1944 in Normandy.
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Remembering Felix Sparks, commanding officer of the first American unit to liberate Dachau, Hitler's first concentration camp, today in 1945. He fought from Sicily to the gates of hell and was the greatest warrior I've ever met, subject of my book, The Liberaror.
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My profile of him. I spoke to four of last five living MOH WW2 recipients - now all have gone. Very sad.
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Badass in a P-51. Today, eighty years ago, Flying Tiger vet Major James H. Howard earned the MOH, shooting down a half dozen enemy planes, becoming the only US fighter pilot to be awarded the MOH in ETO. He was already an ace in the Pacific.
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Remembering Harold Billow, survivor of today’s Malmedy Massacre in which 84 of his fellow Americans were murdered by the SS.
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Wishing Doris Howard, 103, all the very best. Today in 1945 she was serving as a nurse aboard USS Comfort. Over the next few weeks, she would endure terrifying kamikaze attacks and lose several of her fellow nurses who were also treating wounded from Okinawa.
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Brothers in arms. Impossibly moving. How have we lived the lives they gave us?
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For those not shopping today and instead thinking this weekend about the price of freedom - the words in the chapel at the heart of the graveyard where 9387 lie in peace above Omaha Beach. Remember the glory of their spirit.
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RIP Vernon Leopold, last surviving member of WWII's most decorated US platoon, subject of my book The Longest Winter. He died aged 99 surrounded by his family. He was a very kind, honorable man, a German-born Jew who fought for justice and freedom. Heartbroken.
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Remembering Roy Stevens, preparing for D Day today, lost his twin brother and eighteen other fellow Bedford Boys on Omaha on 6 June 1944. Shown here standing, where they died, for the first time.
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"It's not possible to describe the hell of Iwo Jima. It's like trying to explain how a mother feels when she is giving birth. Unless you've been through it, there's no way you can adequately understand it." Woody Williams talking to me in 2020.
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Right now in 1944 Leon Gautier, 99 today, the last living Frenchman from 177 to invade his homeland on D Day, is in a field near Southampton with other commandos from the 1st Special Service Brigade.
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With Harry Miller, 16 during Battle of the Bulge, after signing copy of The Longest Winter,
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for Pearl Harbor commemorations.
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Viva Italia. Female Italian resistance fighters hunt down fascists in Milan 75 years ago. Bellissima!
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Captain Clark Gable after his B-17 returned from a mission today eighty years ago.
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Snaring the fox. Today in 1944, Canadian pilot Charles Fox strafed Rommel's car in France, seriously injuring the 'Desert Fox'. “I timed the shots so that I was able to fire and get him as the car came through a small opening in the trees … I got him on that pass.”
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General George Patton, driving to victory in the Battle of the Bulge, subject of my next book, Patton's Prayer.
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The greatest - Robert Capa, about to jump across the Rhine with 17th Airborne today. Subject of my book Blood and Champagne.
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The last of the few. Happy 103rd birthday Group Captain John Hemingway, shot down twice, last living RAF Battle of Britain fighter pilot.
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E Company Band of Brothers foxholes before attack on Foy on 13 January 1945.
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Remembering Harold Billow, last survivor of today's Malmedy Massacre in 1944, passed earlier this year aged 99.
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I love Ike. 80 years ago, Eisenhower takes command of SHAEF in London. The countdown to D Day has begun.
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The poster woman for French female defiance of Nazi occupation.
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RIP Ken Potts, passed away today. Now there is only one Arizona survivor.
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Happy 102 birthday Ken Potts, one of only two living survivors from USS Arizona. Here's my interview with him.
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Lord Lovat, shown landing on Sword lower right, is now almost at Pegasus Bridge, having led his men inland to link with Ox and Bucks. It’s an extraordinary achievement. Pipes are playing. Snipers firing.
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Major John Howard, center, and his men from Ox and Bucks have just sent out first success code words of D Day - Ham and Jam. They've secured Pegasus Bridge in just ten minutes.
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The most deadly battle for Americans in WWII will begin in a matter of hours. I’ll be live tweeting. Join us tomorrow morning for amazing commentary and more live coverage with veterans and experts. Register here for free - please retweet
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Let’s roll…..Ft. Snelling National Cemetery just now.
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Where first Americans crossed the Rhine at Remagen 8 March 1945. The remains of the Ludendorff bridge.
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"Roosevelt's SS" today in 1944 during Battle of the Bulge. Men of 30th Inf. Div., nicknamed by Germans "Roosevelt's SS", on way to frontlines in Belgium. Over 18,000 battle casualties, almost 300 days of combat from Omaha Beach to the bitter end.
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Happy 102 birthday Ken Potts, one of only two living survivors from USS Arizona. Here's my interview with him.
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Memorial to Battle of the Bulge units near Bastogne this morning on Memorial Day.
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Screaming Eagles going into combat for first time in trucks, bound for Bastogne today. The trucks will not stop, even for men to urinate.
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Thanks Thomas Begay, 96, one of last surviving Navajo code talkers, just a few hours now in 1945 from invading Iwo Jima. He and five others would send and receive over 800 messages in the next two days without one error.
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Remembering ace in a day hillbilly Chuck Yeager, sunning himself in Spain today in 1944 having become first man from his squadron to be shot down then evade and cross the Pyrenees.
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A few minutes ago today in 1945, US forces seized the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen. Here's my interview with the last living US survivor of the battle.
Please share. Please support.
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Today in Nuremberg in 1945 five men from the 3rd ID receive the MOH, the largest group of recipients so honored from one unit in WWII on a battlefield. Far left is Lt. Col. Keith L. Ware, a hero in my book Against All Odds, published next week in paperback.
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This man is leading Patton’s push to reach Bastogne right now through ice against fierce German resistance - Creighton Abrams, arguably the most able of Patton’s many brilliant tank commanders.
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Remembering one of the legendary "Band of Brothers", Pfc. Alex Penkala, E Co., 506th, 101st, killed today in outskirts of Foy, one of some 19,000 Americans who died in the Battle of the Bulge.
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With Dixon Hemphill, US Navy WWII veteran, at today's V-E Day commemorations at National WWII Memorial,
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Remembering Anne Frank and tens of thousands of other victims of Nazism who died in Bergen-Belsen, liberated by British forces today in 1945.
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Where the 4th Armored linked up with 101st Airborne 30 minutes ago in 1944.
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Remembering the finest American officer I’ve ever known, Lt. Lyle Bouck, hunkered down in a foxhole right now as it gets dark and over 200 thousand Germans prepare to strike in just a few hours. Join us tomorrow am to learn more…
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How about "Fort Daly" for a true Yankee patriot? In 1987, Michael Daly lay on his deathbed, making a final confession. Before saluting his priest, he told him: "The world needs peacemakers. Anyone can shoot a gun."
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Remembering "White Rose" heroine, Sophie Scholl, murdered today eighty years ago for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets in Germany. The 22-year-old's final words were: “The sun still shines.”
Never forgotten.
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