Mortain: A forgotten battle and a modern-day fight
Tony Jaber had been fighting for three days before he saw them.A small group of German soldiers was marching up what the Americans had dubbed Hill 314, near the town of Mortain, France.Jaber, now 93, remembers four Germans walking under a white flag. But, decades later, he admits there may have been only two.Then just 19 years old, late in the summer of 1944, Jaber was exhausted. So were the other troops, members of the 30th Infantry Division who had been fiercely […]
