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1 day ago · RMS Lusitania (named after the Roman province corresponding to modern Portugal) was a British ocean liner launched by the Cunard Line in 1906. She was the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of the Mauretania three months later and was awarded the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908.
Following WW1, Germany’s complement of passenger liners was decimated. Ships had either been lost on conflict or seized by the Allies as war reparations. One medium sized liner that was critical to NDL’s rebuild was the BERLIN (1925). While at first glance a fairly unremarkable medium sized liner, she arguably would go on to have one of the ...
10 hours ago · The German surface fleet commissioned 16 capital ships before or during the war: 4 battleships, 6 heavy cruisers and 6 light cruisers. Of these, only the Admiral Graf Spee and Bismarck were sunk in battle on the Atlantic Ocean. Three cruisers were sunk during the April 1940 invasion in Norway and Scharnhorst was sunk in the Arctic
10 hours ago · Normandy landings Part of Operation Overlord and the Western Front of World War II Taxis to Hell – and Back – Into the Jaws of Death, an iconic image of men of the 16th Infantry Regiment, US 1st Infantry Division wading ashore from their landing craft on Omaha Beach on the morning of 6 June 1944 Date 6 June 1944 ; 80 years ago (6 June 1944) Location Normandy, France Result Allied victory ...
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10 hours ago · The Italian operations during 1916 had one extraordinary result: Austrian divisions were pulled away from the Russian southern front. This allowed the Russian forces to organize a counter-offensive. The Brusilov offensive was a large tactical assault carried out by Russian forces against Austro-Hungarian forces in Galicia.
10 hours ago · Vladimir Putin's latest comments underline the need for peace talks and an "immediate ceasefire" in the Ukraine war, Hungary's foreign minister has said.
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10 hours ago · Elements of such larger units were during 7 October fed into the battle piece-meal. Collapse of the Israeli 188th Armored Brigade. The Syrian first and second wave had in total numbered about six hundred tanks, half of which had been lost by the morning of 7 October. By this time, the Israelis had committed about 250 tanks to battle.
