Posts by Aaron Spuler

On a winding road, past a stand of sycamores outside his Ohio home, CBS News found Jim Martin, 70 years after his first trip to France. Jim was one of the first Americans in combat in Europe. “They called us the tip of the spear,” he says. Jim was a private in the 101st Airborne,…

The first thing the Nazi garrison on VÃ¥gsøy Island, Norway, would have heard when the British No. 3 Commando battalion landed on December 27, 1941, was the sudden blaring drone of bagpipes. One commando stood at the fore of the landing craft, facing the impending battle and playing the peppy, martial “March of the Cameron…