Walking Archive on MSN
The fear after African armies captured American fuel in WW2
In February 1943, German forces achieved a decisive battlefield victory at Kasserine Pass in North Africa. The story follows ...
BORDEAUX, France — A former German officer who helped save Bordeaux’s port from destruction by Nazi forces in World War II has died. Henri Salmide, 92, born Heinz Stahlschmidt, died Tuesday, said ...
“There is a lot of baggage in doing a German impression,” says Dave Fornell, of Elgin, a lead organizer of Rockford World War II Days. “My elevator pitch on why I do German has to do with their ...
Officials have accounted for the remains of a United States Army soldier from Alabama who was killed during World War II — eight decades after a German officer handed over his identification tags. U.S ...
FORT GORDON, Ga. (Nov. 21, 2014) - More than 120 people met Sunday afternoon at a remote cemetery near old gate 2 on Fort Gordon to pay respect and lay wreaths of remembrance to 21 German and one ...
More than 75 years after V-E Day—the German surrender on May 8, 1945, that ended the physical fighting on the Western Front in World War II—myths and misconceptions about the war remain. TIME asked ...
Most Marines had never seen combat when Peter Ortiz joined the Corps in June 1942. However, he had already survived five years in the French Foreign Legion and fought in Africa, faced the Nazis in ...
The bulk of the German Army—the dough feet of the normal infantry divisions—moved on shank's mare. The rifle companies' transport consisted of three-horse wagons, on which the troops loaded their ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results