His first sergeant rousted him from his pup tent around 2 a.m. when word came the Japanese were attacking and had maybe even gotten behind the American front line, on a desolate, unforgiving slab of an occupied island in the North Pacific.
“He was shouting, ‘Get up! Get out!'” Dover said...
French Resistance cache unearthed including STENs named ‘Pepette’ and ‘Alice’
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A couple remodeling an old home in north-central...
Dummy kit used by all sides during WW2
Hopefully this thread will be a story of deception in war shown in photographs
The Ghost Army was an Allied Army tactical deception unit during World War II officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops(Operation Quicksilver).[1] The 1,100-man...
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