I was stationed at USAREUR Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany. While in Germany, I visited various flea markets and antique stores looking for German daggers and any other interesting war relics I could find.
and the Office of Strategic Services, OSS, did employ former German military and intelligence officers as informants – but this was a necessity to identify more dangerous Nazi criminals, or suppress anti-Allied resistance. But as friction mounted across the Iron Curtain, American and other Western...
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Soviet anti-aircraft artillery frequently mistook it for German aircraft, often with lethal consequences. After the war, the Il-2 could be found in service with several Eastern European countries, with most of the Il-2/10 aircraft eventually scrapped with the advent of military jets. Only a ...
He hailed from the eastern Anhui province and had served in the Northeastern Army for many years. Chief of staff was a military instructor at Changsha Temporary University, Mao Hong, who was a grim-faced lieutenant colonel who spoke with a Hunan accent and always had his handsome German ...
and one of his first acts was to visit Washington (and also Ottawa) in January 1952 to repair the damage he felt had been done. The visit helped to check U.S. fears that the British would desert theKorean War, harmonized attitudes toward German rearmament and, distasteful though it was ...
destroyer was damaged by a German U-boat and another was sunk. The United States now embarked on an undeclared naval war against Germany, but Roosevelt refrained from asking for a formal declaration of war. According to public opinion polls, a majority of Americans still hoped to remain ...