Tuckwiller began with all of the grave markers at the Normandy American Cemetery inscribed with a June 6th death date. Then she combed through what’s left of WWII military records—many were lost in a fire in the 1970s—looking for “after action” reports from the invasion that included ...
How many American soldiers died in the Battle of Normandy? How many German soldiers died in the invasion of Poland? How many casualties were there in the Battle of Verdun? How many British soldiers died in Battle of Somme? How many soldiers were in the Red Army in WWII? How many French...
fewer than100 U.S. troops had been killed, but hundreds more had been wounded. Though insurgent forces, who’d once operated with impunity, had been beaten back, the city was left in ruins, hundreds of civilians had died, and thousands were wounded or di...
As newly minted intelligence officers, Ritchie Boys were embedded in every American military branch and unit, and they fought in every major WWII battle from the D-Day invasion of Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to Iwo Jima. In fighting the Nazis, one of the Ritchie Boys' most importan...
In September of 1994, the Iraq disarmament crisis—which would be used as leverage for the 2003 invasion of Iraq—manifested as Iraq threatening to no longer cooperate with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and sending troops near the Iraq-Kuwait border. In return, the U.S. sent...
• How the Jews of Normandy financed and accompanied William the Conqueror in his invasion and subjugation of the hitherto Orthodox Christian British Isles, which refused to follow Rome into heresy and schism in the 11th century • The Merovingian Jewish origins of Pope Urban II who instigated...
The war at sea also stepped up with battles between convoys taking vital supplies to Britain and the U-Boats, which threatened them. The invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 meant that Britain was no longer fighting alone, but it seemed like it, too, would fall. However, with winter...
Supreme Court ruled in favor of Justice Reynolds, a teacher at Zion Parochial School who had been teaching German to a 10-year-old student, claiming it was an invasion of the 14th Amendment. [Pictured: Justices of the Supreme Court (and others) in 1923, Chief Justice Taft is front and ...
One notable incident was the death of Emily Davison, who stepped in front of a horse belonging to King George V at the Epsom Derby in 1913. The horse also died, of course: we English are not always animal-lovers. It was part of a general campaign of intolerable behaviour by a small ...
in Normandy as long as possible, the day of the invasion even featured a fake landing force with loudspeakers playing the sounds of a giant fleet moving across the English Channel, with radar-reflecting balloons and metal strips dropped by planes creating the radar signature of a large invasion...