Like a human GPS, he guided Britain’s first special forces across the vast Sahara for hit-and-run raids on enemy bases in the battle against Rommel’s forces.
Tag: World War II (1939-45)
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Maureen Flavin Sweeney, Whose Weather Report Delayed D-Day, Dies at 100
She helped save General Eisenhower’s invasion from potential disaster, enabling the Allies to gain a foothold in France that proved essential to victory in World War II.
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In Steve McQueen’s ‘Occupied City,’ a Marriage of Art and History
Steve McQueen collaborated with his wife Bianca Stigter to make “Occupied City,” a four-hour documentary that brings Amsterdam’s World War II history into the present day.
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75 Years Later, the Tokyo War Crimes Trials Still Reverberate
The Tokyo war crimes trial is consequential not because of long-defunct Wilsonian daydreams about a world pacified by international law, but because it misfired and fizzled.
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Remains of World War II Tank Commander Identified After 79 Years
Second Lt. Gene F. Walker was killed in Germany in 1944, nearly three months after his daughter was born. She learned in July that his remains had been identified.