Edward H. Brooks
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Lieutenant General Edward Hale Brooks was a highly decorated senior officer of the United States Army, a combat veteran of both World War I and World War II, who commanded the U.S. Second Army during
LTG Edward H. Brooks, final formal military portrait
Lieutenant Edward Hale Brooks, pictured here with his wife, Beatrice Brooks, as he prepares to ship off to Europe, 1918.
Brooks observing General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Winston Churchill and Lieutenant General Omar Bradley fire M1 carbines.
Colonel Sidney Hinds, General Eisenhower, Prime Minister Churchill and Major General Brooks overseeing preparations for D-Day.
Operation Northwind (1944)
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Operation Northwind was the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front. Northwind was launched to support the German Ardennes offensive campaign in the Battle of the Bulge, which
Edward H. Brooks
…flexible defense which stopped the enemy attacks. During VI Corps' resistance to a January 1, 1945, enemy counterattack through the Low Vosges Mountains (Operation Nordwind), VI Corps executed a difficult withdrawal from close contact with the enemy to a predetermined line along the Moder River. All hostile attacks against…
Tanks and soldiers, Operation Nordwind, Alsace–Lorraine, France, 1944–45