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Known as the Kettenkrad (a German portmanteau for "tracked motorcycle"), the NSU SdKfz is a small half-track with handlebars and a saddle up front and two jump seats in the rear. It was designed ...
Waynesburg police called on the Allegheny County Bomb Squad Wednesday for help disposing of World War II-era explosives. Waynesburg Chief of Police Billy Nichols said a man reported to the police ...
Police say when contractors were digging around the area, they discovered what appeared to be a World War II-style mortar. Police then contacted the bomb squad to properly dispose of the device.
An unexploded German mortar was uncovered in the major Jewish cemetery in Warsaw during renovation works on Monday. Established in 1806, the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery has borne witness to ...
Some 1,652 German mortar shells have been found in a small French village in the Hinterland between France and Germany - a flash point in the First World War. The village Coucy-lès-Eppes, where ...
Fearless WW2 veteran who cheated death twice in one day when he survived a mortar bomb and German sniper before escaping from a prisoner of war camp with Queen Camilla's father dies aged 102 ...
Police in Jersey are warning people not to move any remnants of World War Two after a resident found a suspected German mortar bomb body on the coast and took it home before calling them.
He was just about to fire on the German half-track when he was killed by a mortar shell. Towle was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
A suspected World War Two German mortar bomb found on the sand dunes in Jersey has been disposed securely by a bomb disposal officer, police have said. The States of Jersey Police said the ...
A suspected World War Two German mortar bomb found on the sand dunes in Jersey has been disposed securely by a bomb disposal officer, police have said. The States of Jersey Police said the ...