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American historian

This article is about military historian Charles B. MacDonald. For the U.S. golfer, see Charles Blair Macdonald.

Charles B.

MacDonald (November 23, 1922 – December 4, 1990) was a former Deputy Chief Historian for the United States Army. He wrote several of the Army's official histories of World War II.

War service

After graduating from Presbyterian College, MacDonald was commissioned as a US Army officer through ROTC and deployed to Europe.

By September 1944, as a 21-year-old captain, he commanded a rifle company in the 23rd Infantry Regiment. His company was intended to be part of the effort to capture the Huertgen Forest.

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They had been transferred north from the area which was, soon after, overrun by the Germans in the first moves of the Battle of the Bulge. They were redeployed to defend a crossroads against the German advance. After delaying the Germans long enough to allow the rest of MacDonald's division to deploy, they