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Minnesota World War II veteran Les Schrenk recently got a chance to visit the former POW camp in Poland where he was held ...
Hamas and Israel staked out their positions Wednesday ahead of expected talks on a Washington-backed ceasefire proposal, with ...
Allied intelligence confirmed that Nazi Germany was developing “vengeance” weapons, including the V-2 long-range rocket, at Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea.
Okinawa marked the day when one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island ended 80 years ago ...
But the Red Army deployed devastating airstrikes on Narva during World War II as the Soviets fought to retake the country from the Nazis. Bombing campaigns by the USSR from March to July in 1944 ...
World War 2 Bombs Discovered In Germany's Cologne, Thousands Evacuated Unexploded bombs are often found in Germany, which had many of its major cities bombed to ruins during the war, and such ...
Allied nations conducted 262 air raids of Cologne during World War II, killing approximately 20,000 residents and leaving the city in ruins. Nearly all of the buildings in the Old Town were ...
At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Cramond Island was refortified to counter a potential invasion via the Forth River, and an anti-boat boom was laid across the estuary from Cramond.
In that spirit, CE brings you a reading list — from memoirs and historical reckonings to war diaries and fiction set in World War II, India, and beyond. These books confront the trauma, erasure ...
The US, Britain and France were trying to work out differences with the Soviet Union, which felt the surrender didn’t recognise the sacrifices its troops had made in securing victory. A second ...
Stone Harbor - After World War 2, as Europe lay in ruins, the best scientists, researchers, and professors came to America, which led to innovations and inventions which benefited mankind, but America ...