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The Gear of Elite WW2 Paratroopers - FJR6 On D-DayThe German Paratroopers of Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6, also known as FJR6 would face their American counterparts of the 101st ...
As the Allies prepared to invade Normandy, a small team of SAS commandos and 400 straw-filled burlap dummies duped the Nazis ...
Meet the ‘Laughing Paratrooper’ of World War II Army 1st Sgt. Leonard Funk, poses with Shorty, an 8-month-old puppy, attached to his parachute equipment, during World War II.
In ‘Operation Biting,’ Max Hastings narrates a daring action by British special forces that could have come from the pen of ...
The paratroopers avoided the German tanks when they could. To rescue the trapped soldiers, the Soviet high command in February directed Gen. Georgy Zhukov to mount a larger, more aggressive ...
World War II paratrooper and storyteller, Vincent Speranza, visited the Spartan Brigade in Alaska. ... When German forces broke through Allied lines during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, ...
An American paratrooper who became a legend in Belgium during World War II for carrying beer in his helmet to give to the wounded has died, the Army’s 18th Airborne Corps said Thursday.
Airplanes may get all the airborne attention when discussing World War II, ... Considered "impregnable," the fort fell in 20 minutes to 78 German paratroopers who had landed inside its walls ...
The first of 15,500 paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st U.S. Airborne are dropped near Carentan. They battle German forces and clear exits for U.S. infantry landing on Utah Beach.
WATERLOO - Bakers usually don't have to take guns to work. Jock Hickey did. Bakers aren't usually shot at. Jock Hickey was - by the German army. Hickey, 81, who worked many years at Hawkeye Steel ...
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