“When I was about 15 years old, we were living first in France and then in Germany, and I watched the French paratroopers come back and kill the French Fourth Republic. So I know what a real ...
The Riveter,” Jack Wang’s first novel, is steeped in multiple worlds and cultures. From the forests of British Columbia in ...
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Irish Examiner on MSNClodagh Finn: Brave rebels worth rememberingAhead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Monday, it is fitting to recalls two Cork women who saved hundreds of people from Nazi terror ...
Long before there were air ambulance companies like CareFlight, and TV shows like 'China Beach' and 'M*A*S*H,' Valérie André ...
A son has spoken of his pride after his late father was honoured for his Second World War service, during which he was working in General Eisenhower's signals room at the moment of the German ...
The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...
the French Croix de Guerre with Palm; France's highest military and civilian honor, the Legion d'Honneur; awards for the liberation of Mauthausen; the World War II Liberation Medal from the Czech ...
Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower was given command of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion force that was the greatest ...
Relatives of a World War II hero who thought their family member ... to Sergeant Raymond William Greenley, the first British paratrooper to be dropped east of the Rhine on March 24, 1945.
"In combat, they would just charge forward from the tree line, like in a World War II movie," Ihorovych recalled. Assaults during World War II often had high casualty rates. He said his troops ...
Szenes legacy is such that Agent Peggy Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Agent draws inspiration from real-life ...
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