This WWII soldier knocked out 6 German pillboxes and took 18 prisoners by himself
Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.
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Meet the world's deadliest female sniper who terrorized Hitler's Nazi army
On June 22, 1941, Hitler broke ties with Joseph Stalin and German troops poured ... Pavlichenko was one of 2,000 female snipers who fought for the Red Army in World War II, and one of the 500 ...
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Understanding World War II through the eyes of German soldiers
Professor Sönke Neitzel used secret transcripts of German prisoners of war to create a unique portrait of the mindset of soldiers during WWII. For many decades after the end of World War II (WWII), a ...
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How Claudia Kalugina Became One Of The Deadliest Female Snipers In The History Of War
Klaudia was partnered with her best friend Marusia Chikhvintseva who was killed by a German sniper not long after they joined the war. Klaudia gave an interview prior to her death, reprinted here ...
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The Taveta baobab tree that housed a German sniper
These range from war cemeteries, an old, decommissioned railway line, bullet-ridden buildings and other structures that bear scars of fire exchange between British and German forces. Then there is ...
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German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)
Built in Poland under Nazi German occupation initially as a concentration camp for Poles and later for Soviet prisoners of war, it soon became a prison for a number of other nationalities. Between the ...