On this and other bases, a case could be made for halting MacArthur's forces at the 38th parallel. In re-establishing the old border, the UNC had met the U.N. call for assistance in repelling the attack on South Korea. In an early statement, Secretary of State Acheson had said the U...
Otto Skorzeny was born in Vienna in 1908. He lived in a lower-middle-class family in Austria, although his forebears originally came from Poland. While pursuing an engineering degree, Skorzeny developed a fearsome reputation in the dueling societies that gave him the characteristic scar on his ...
In the spring of 1945, the Wilno Command led by Cavalry Captain “Boryna”, and thereafter by Sec. Lt. “Miedzianka”, began to demobilize AK resistance in the Nowogródek area, and to move its members beyond theCurzon Line. The transfer of the Home Army soldiers to “Poland” lasted u...