But in his free time, Stemkens roams the nearby forests on both sides of the border, armed with the metal detector he uses to ...

Area: The area in and around the town of St Valéry-en-Caux, northern France. Players: Allies: 51st Highland Division, 1st Armoured Division; French 9th Army Corps. Germany: 7th Panzer Division ...

COLOGNE, Germany — Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city's biggest evacuation since the end of the war. More than 20,000 ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Three unexploded U.S. bombs from World War II were defused on Wednesday in Cologne after the German city’s biggest evacuation since the end of the war. More than 20,000 ...

The German city cordoned off a huge area, ... Finding bombs from WW2 is not unusual in German cities such as Cologne and Berlin, but these bombs were particularly large. Reuters.

Kulschewski told WDR that about 1,500 to 2,000 unexploded bombs from World War II are found every year across North Rhine-Westphalia, the state in which Cologne is located.

And all German prisoners of war had long since been repatriated. He finally became a US citizen in 2009 and died aged 92 in 2013. Fittingly, his headstone was inscribed with both of his names.