Back at the main column, General Terry and Colonel Gibbon watched as a lone horseman, Bradley’s runner (Private Henry Rice from H Company), rode across the river and up to them. Rice’s face was pale and flushed … Read the article
The War Began Here—June 25, 1950.
CALLIE OETTINGER was Command Posts’ first managing editor. Her interest in military history, policy and fiction took root when … Read the article
June 19, 1944, a formidable Atlantic storm strengthened and started to move toward the coastline of France. With a dark wall bearing furious winds and thundering waves twenty-feet high, it swept across the D-Day beaches of … Read the article
CALLIE OETTINGER was Command Posts’ first … Read the article
The Provincial Congress was worried. It was losing control of the army.
Joseph Warren had warned about this possibility when he first wrote to the Continental Congress urging them to take control of the armed forces … Read the article
Normandy, France, was beauty and the beast. The sprinkling of land unspoiled by war was the beauty. We, the soldiers, were the beasts. I’d see miles and miles of fields and orchards that, … Read the article
The Germans had four years to fortify their conquered northern Atlantic coast, but they had not, as of early 1944, put that time to good use. For three of those years the Western Front was, to … Read the article
Additional Reading:
Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life by Carlo D’Este
“D’Este’s thorough research and careful analysis show us an Eisenhower feeling his way into command.” —Chicago Tribune
“A distinguished historian of World War II . . . … Read the article
