Day, and the 101st Airborne paid a heavy price to take it. This video follows the battle of June 12-13, 1944, as Easy Company and the 101st fought through German machine-gun fire, artillery, and ...

On the other side Karl von Wiegand recorded a German officer’s eyewitness account: Hour after hour, day and night, the thunder of the big guns in what was perhaps the greatest artillery duel in ...

Artillery would play a central role in the German battle plan – first by breaking up French fixed and improvised defenses to allow German infantry to advance and seize the strategic high ground ...