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I recently met longtime local literary agent and author James Donovan near his office on SMU Boulevard to discuss his ...
Combat in Europe affected many of Erie's men sent overseas. Erie veterans recall brutality, sights and scenes that set in as ...
What began as a D-Day objective turned into a two-month siege. From desperate house-to-house fighting to tank duels in ...
Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Army Signal Corps The US Army’s Heroism at The Battle of the Bulge December 1944 was supposed to be ...
Defence experts ranked the top 5 war films of all time, and their picks reveal the most realistic, gripping portrayals of ...
The D-Day invasion began in the dark early hours of June 6, 1944, when more than 13,000 U.S. Army paratroopers jumped into ...
After refitting in Townsville, more than 400 American paratroopers were to join 100 German and 36 French soldiers to perform another nighttime jump on July 21, this time at Shoalwater Bay in ...
Six C-17A Globemaster III aircraft – four from the U.S. Air Force and two from Australia – transported 323 American and a dozen German paratroopers on the intercontinental flight, while French ...
Instead, it was parachutes of German paratroopers. "The camp was right beside a lake. You could hear the bullets falling on the … frozen ice." The enemy soldiers almost landed on Hickey's compound.
Many WW2-era German innovations have helped shape our modern world.