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3 days ago · June 6, 2024 marks 80 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
4 days ago · The German city of Cologne was bombed in 262 separate air raids by the Allies during World War II, all by the Royal Air Force (RAF) but for a single failed post-capture test of a guided missile by the United States Army Air Forces.
2 days ago · D-Day veterans received a standing ovation – led by Their Majesties the King and Queen – as Portsmouth hosted the principal commemoration to D-Day, 80 years on from the landing. A six-gun salute in tribute fired by frigate HMS St Albans was timed to perfection as a 90-minute ‘show’ – part celebration, part commemoration, part concert ...
Pretty incredible story. The government just identified and repatriated a LT from WW2 who was in a German mass grave and now going to bury him at Normandy June 23rd. 295K subscribers in the army community. United States Army on Reddit.
4 days ago · History document from No School, 5 pages, Name: _ WW2 Study Guide 1. The leaders of Britain and France tried to avoid war by giving Hitler what he wanted, this was known as a . . . 2. In this agreement Great Britain and France pushed Czechoslovakia to "allow" Germany to annex part of it.
2 days ago · The Thirty Years' War was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, lasting from 1618 to 1648. Fought primarily in Central Europe, an estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of battle, famine, or disease, while parts of present-day Germany reported population declines of over 50%.
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3 days ago · A classroom in a bombed-out school has become a shelter for an extended family of 20 Palestinians. They fled Rafah after Israel's latest offensive in the southern Gaza city.
