Little Known Facts About D-Day, 6 June 1944–

In the book, Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life, the overall commander reflects on when he last visited the battlefield five years before his death: “These men came here — British and our allies, and Americans — to storm these beaches for one purpose only…

On my First Day as a Platoon Leader:

Try as I might, I cannot remember my first “day” as a platoon leader. When I arrived at my first unit, C Btry, 1–37 FA I was a 2LT recently graduated from BOLC. The battalion was about to head to the Yakima Training Center, and though I was not certified, I was nominally put into the 2nd…

On Your First Day as a Platoon Leader

CCLKOW is a weekly conversation on military affairs jointly hosted by the Center for Company-Level Leaders (CCL) at the US Military Academy at West Point and the Kings of War (KOW), a blog of the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. The views…