As the USS Borie prepared to ram a German U-boat in the early morning hours of Nov. 1, 1943, the sailors on the Navy destroyer braced for impact. Turbulent waters in the north Atlantic Ocean negated ...

A daring yet little-known mission took place in Canada during World War II, but this stealth mission didn't use bombs and bullets. It was all about the weather. The German military had trouble getting ...

In 1942, at the conclusion of the campaign in North Africa, the logistical strain of securing such a large number of prisoners in the area prompted the U.S. military to move the POWs to the United ...

TO FIND OUT THE WAR ENDED FOR THEM NOT OVER THERE BUT OVER HERE. IT WAS WORLD WAR TWO AND THESE GUYS WERE THE ENEMY. ON MAY 13, 1940 THREE ALL AXES ARE MISTREATED. KRIS: GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR, ...

I have always been interested in electronics engineering ingenuity used to solve “impossible” problems. One such problem was the task of deciphering the German Army's most secret transmissions during ...

While many Acadiana men were in Europe fighting Nazi Germany in WWII, more than 2,000 German prisoners of war were in Acadiana harvesting sugar cane and rice in their absence. During WWII, the U.S.

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The bulk of the German Army—the dough feet of the normal infantry divisions—moved on shank's mare. The rifle companies' transport consisted of three-horse wagons, on which the troops loaded their ...