Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.

The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

By the time the vehicle passed trials, the mission for which it was commissioned — breaching the heavy fortifications of the German Siegfried Line — had already been accomplished by that point ...