Pfc. Andy Masiero and Staff Sergeant Urban Minicozzi of the 75th Infantry Division reload their weapons on the roof top of a bombed out building during the Battle of the Bulge. 🪖

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In January of 1945, Staff Sergeant Bill Seklacki uses a flame thrower on a Japanese position during the fighting on Luzon. 🪖

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Men of the 1st Special Service Force, the Devil’s Brigade, near Anzio with their Johnson light machine gun in early 1944. 🪖

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In January of 1945, a US Army half track crosses a temporary bridge over the Ourthe River, in the war-torn Belgian city of Houffalize. 🪖

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81 years ago today, the crew of the 78th Infantry Division’s Btry. B, whose guns have just knocked out two enemy tanks, relax between fire missions in northeastern France.🪖

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In January of 1945, a paratrooper of the 17th Airborne Division rests where a hole was blasted in a wall at La Roche, Belgium. 🪖

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In 1944, Sgt. Henry Koller lays an anti-tank mine near Hotton, Belgium. 🪖

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As tensions escalate between President Trump and European leaders, the perceived likelihood of the United States acquiring Greenland has climbed to 22% on Polymarket

Trump has stated in multiple interviews that any country interfering with his efforts to bring Greenland under U.S. control would face heavy tariffs.

Meanwhile, protests have erupted across Greenland, with many residents opposing U.S. acquisition and expressing a desire to remain aligned with Denmark.

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The great Bill Guarnere and the man who portrayed him brilliantly in Band of Brothers, Frank John Hughes. 😎

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An 83-year-old retired Marine kept the promise he made to his friend while in a bunker in Vietnam, and stood guard one last time.

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On this day in 1812, 10,000 British and Portuguese troops under Sir Arthur Wellesley (the future Duke of Wellington) storm the French-occupied stronghold of Ciudad Rodrigo after a 10-day siege. The victory opens a route for an Anglo-Portuguese invasion of Spain.

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In 1944, American soldiers man a .50 caliber MG at a field CP near Malmedy, Belgium. 🪖

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On this day in 1649, England's King Charles I is tried before the Rump Parliament's newly established High Court of Justice for "high crimes" including treason. Ten days later, Charles will be executed.

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Happy MLK Day ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻

Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his lifelong fight for justice, equality, and dignity for all.

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During the Battle of the Bulge, Easy Company’s Popeye Wynn and Hank Zimmerman on the line in Bastogne. 🪖

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Muhammad Ali and his brother Rahman Ali, walk with their great-grandmother Betsy Jane Greathouse, who was 99 when this picture was taken in Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1963.

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In January of 1945, soldiers of the 75th Infantry Division look to engage the enemy in the snowy terrain near Amonines, Belgium. 🪖

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6 years ago today, the first known case of COVID-19 was reported in the United States.

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Today in 1793, France's King Louis XVI is executed by guillotine before a Paris mob. "I pardon those who have occasioned my death," he says before the blade falls. The revolution has ridded France of its monarchy, or so many think — in 11 years, Napoleon crowns himself emperor.

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Today in 1942, 15 Nazi officials meet at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to map out the "final solution to the Jewish question in Europe"

"They minced no words," recalled Adolf Eichmann. "They spoke about methods of killing, about liquidation, about extermination"

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On this day in 1940, the Three Stooges' "You Nazty Spy" is released in the U.S. The 18-minute slapstick comedy is the first American movie to openly lampoon Adolf Hitler, appearing nine months before Chaplin's satirical classic "The Great Dictator."

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