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The early attempt at drones in World War II saw the Army Air Forces convert B-17 bombers into remote-controlled flying bombs.
Selena Masse inspires seventh-graders to learn history through speakers and books about young people in tough situations.
Blitz spirit refers to the resilience, unity and stoic determination of civilians during the German bombing raids (the Blitz) ...
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Germany aims to help Ukraine manufacture more weapons as Kyiv looks to strengthen its negotiating position in peace talks with Russia.
However, Berlin has balked at granting Zelenskyy’s request to ... enrage the Kremlin and end up drawing NATO into Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II. Instead, German Chancellor Friedrich ...
Thousands of people were evacuated from central Cologne in western Germany on Wednesday following the discovery of three wartime bombs, in what the city authority called the largest such operation ...
BERLIN — Some 20,500 people were evacuated on Wednesday from the city of Cologne, in western Germany, as explosives experts prepared to defuse three unexploded World War II bombs found during ...
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Over 20,000 people were evacuated from central Cologne Wednesday after three unexploded World War II bombs were found, the biggest such operation in the German city since ...
After the war is over I’m going to buy a British radio set—then at least I’ll own something that has always worked.” After the bombers attacked, the rallies and parades went on in Berlin.
In World War II, Allied forces’ bombing raids flattened towns and cities in the Normandy region northwest of Paris but didn’t wreak destruction on the same scale on the French capital.
In 1944, during World War II, U.S. bombers flying from Britain began the first daytime attacks on Berlin. In 1953, Georgi Malenkov was named premier of the Soviet Union one day after the death of ...