France awarded its highest honor, the Légion d’honneur, to the Chinese contingent’s last survivor in 2006. Huang Tingxin, ...
"Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called ...
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How a Single Retreat Became the Turning Point of WWII
The German retreat from Normandy marked a decisive turning point in World War II. This episode examines how Allied forces ...
A Dothan man received the highest French decoration for his participation in the liberation of Metz, France during World War II in the cold winter of 1944. John Little Jr., originally from Greenville, ...
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Footage From 1944 Shows France Reborn in Liberation Parade in Paris
Over 50,000 Allied troops filled the streets of Paris in the city’s largest parade, celebrating its hard-won liberation from ...
Prologue : Eisenhower's dilemma -- Guerrilla warfare and the design of the jedburghs -- Enter the Americans -- Recreating France and the rise of the résistance -- North African rehearsal -- The ...
Although British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin Roosevelt often were at odds with Soviet Premier Josef Stalin during WWII, it is a myth that they disliked him.They ...
This year is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the extermination and concentration camps. After World War 2 ended in ...
The meticulously detailed but long-forgotten diary of a Chinese officer — rescued by urban explorers from a Hong Kong tenement block before its demolition — is now bringing his story back to life and ...
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