Inside the German tank, which also fired toward Esser's car, was bow gunner Gustav Schaefer, whom Smoyer met years after the war, and befriended. The former fighters from both sides were united by the fear they'd been the one who'd killed Katharina Esser. While working on the book, ...
World War Two killed more people, disrupted more lives, and probably had more far reaching effects than any other war in history. Eight decades on, some of the last living veterans have come together to reflect on and remember their time in the forces....
After the war, the veterans put their experiences behind them, slipping back into obscurity and, for some, poverty. Although many live in low-quality housing, they said they are happy. "Our house is not too good, b...
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Over 700 veterans completed a detailed questionnaire about their experiences and memories of war, and a smaller number were interviewed in depth about the impact of the war. People were chosen for interview because they (1) had experienced severetraumatic eventsduring the war and (2) had either...
And, as CBS2's Jennifer McLogan reported, a rare few of those brave soldiers are still alive today. There was an emotional flag-raising ceremony on Monday to honorWorld War IIveterans who were present on the beaches of Normandy 78 years ago. ...
the Ukraine. It is doubtful that there was any person alive who would have been able to convince him to avoid war with the Soviet Union. Had he done so, the war in the west would have been more manageable, and war fatigue might still have brought Britain to the table for peace talks...
例如,《美国传统图片史:第二次世界大战》(The American Heritage Picture History of World War II,1966)是美国多年来最畅销的单卷本“二战”图片史图书,其中不但没有收录一张南京大屠杀的图片,甚至对事件本身只字未提。无论是丘吉尔长达1 065页的名著《第二次世界大战回忆录》(Memoirs of the Second World ...
NOT EVERY World War 2 veteran is still around to tell us how he feels about the world his sacrifices brought into being. But there are a few veterans, and sons and daughters of veterans, who are no longer keeping their heads down and pretending that everything is just fine. Some of the...
Not only did it bring the Heads of many Allied nations to the western part of France to mark the Anniversary, but also thousands and thousands of re-enactors in their vehicles and vintage aircrafts invading the old battlegrounds to salute and pay respect to not only the veterans that had ...