FULL, Switzerland (Reuters) - A Swiss museum is restoring a rare King Tiger tank used by Nazi Germany's 506th Heavy Tank Battalion on the Western Front and hopes it will become the second driveable ...
Seventy-six years have passed since Christmas Day, 1944, but the haunting memory of that lonely holiday still brings tears to the eyes of Herman Beaty. At age 18, he was thousands of miles from home, ...
Throughout December, the 29th Division’s front was “quiet,” meaning that there were no large-scale combat operations in their sector, but artillery was fired back and forth across the Roer, and German ...
THE WILD BLUE: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany, 1944-1945. By Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon & Schuster, $26. FLAK hit the plane ... Oil streamed out of the engine, and flame was belching ...
In this compelling, first-rate history of the last year of World War II in Europe, Max Hastings not only renders the horrendous battles but also analyzes the reasoning behind the major decisions of ...
A 1941 graduate of Sugar Notch High School, Joseph John Miskel was one of thousands of young men and women who enlisted in the U.S. Armed Services at the outbreak of World War II. While each have ...
IN THE Treaty of Mutual Guarantee signed by Britain, Germany, Italy, France, and Belgium at Locarno in 1925, these states agreed to guarantee the status quo on the Franco-BelgoGerman frontiers, and to ...
In September 1944, when Adolf Hitler first told his stunned generals of a plan for a massive counteroffensive in the West, he was thinking big. Like a losing gambler betting the last of his cash on a ...
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