Thirty-four years after the crews of eight Army Apache helicopters fired the first shots of Operation Desert Storm, the helicopter crews were awarded Distinguished Flying Crosses for the mission ...

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But what made this event so remarkable was the fact that Ken Lee was a U.S. Army Captain aboard a U.S. Army aircraft. It was the only instance of an air to air kill by the U.S. Army to date since ...

Players: Allies: General Bernard Montgomery's 8th Army's 50th and 1st Armoured Divisions, New Zealand Corps. Axis: The Italian 1st Army, formerly known as the Panzer Army Africa. Outcome ...

I’m getting reports about wildflowers from hikers in the Boise Foothills, desert rats in the Owyhees and Friends of the Weiser River Trail. May through June are great times for flowers at mid ...

Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT He had reported from the Maginot Line in the Phoney War, from Egypt as the ‘Desert Rats’ fought ... as the Red Army advanced deeper into Poland, those ...

Kevin Murphy, 90, was just ten when the war ended. His older brother Jim joined the Army when he was 18 in 1942, serving in Egypt with the Desert Rats. Kevin says he was in school in Crieff when he ...

Some things really can make my blood boil. But enough on that. And then there are those desert rats who come up with some interesting shenanigans to pass the time. Like shining a laser beam at the ...

Basil Smith, from Carmarthenshire, served in the war as part of the Desert Rats, which operated in North Africa, and said that on VE Day he was relieved to be home in "normal surroundings" and not ...

To commemorate 80 years since VE Day, historic landmarks across the UK have been lit up in red, white and blue. A total of 83 monuments, buildings and attractions in the four nations and the ...