Story by Col. Richard Goldenberg | New York National Guard | 12.31.2019
TROY, N.Y. -- In the earliest days of 1945 the infantrymen of the 42nd Infantry Division, now a part of the New York Army National Guard, spent their first days in desperate combat against German tanks and paratroopers during Hitler’s final offensive in Western Europe. Operation Nordwind, sometimes called “the other Battle of the Bulge” kicked off on New Year’s Eve 1944 in the......
