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Explorers Find Torpedoed WWII Japanese Warship Carrying 1,000 Allied Prisoners In South China Sea
On July 1, 1942, a U.S. submarine torpedoed the SS Montevideo Maru, not knowing it was carrying Allied captives. When the ...
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140 Tanks Destroyed: Michael Wittmann Was WWII’s Most Lethal Tank Killer
Tank Ace poster boy for the Panzers - Michael Wittmann served in the Waffen SS during WW2 and became one of the most talked about tank ace's of the war. Well known for his actions at Villers-Bocage on ...
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The last living WWII-era German Nazis have shockingly few regrets
Deemed functionaries rather than war criminals by the German government, these former medics, SS officers and concentration camp guards were able to return to their communities after World War II ...
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The British Tommy would only fight after frequent cuppa breaks and the SS were sadistic fanatics: Britain's leading war historian tackles the greatest myths of WW2
But were all German soldiers fanatics like them or the the Waffen-SS? Within ordinary infantry divisions, attitudes could be very different. One soldier called Eberhard Beck, a gunner with the ...
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Families of Nazi SS hostages held as bargaining chips in WWII say lessons from the war still resonate
PRAGS, Italy — In a little-known chapter in the waning days of World War II, U.S. troops rescued more than 130 political prisoners from an Alpine hotel that members of Hitler’s SS intended to ...
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When Americans, Germans and POWs fought the SS from the walls of a castle
Amidst all that, an American detachment somehow found itself under siege, holed up in an Austrian castle fighting off waves of SS troops. Their unlikely allies? Members of the Wehrmacht ...
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An Ingalls-built revolutionary ship, the SS Exchequer, became WWII Navy seaplane tender
One of the earliest accomplishments in the annals of Ingalls Shipbuilding was the construction of the SS Exchequer in 1939-1940 ... and received two battle stars for World War II service.
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New search underway for World War II shipwreck that poses pollution threat off Florida coast
Scientists have resumed their search for the SS Norlindo, an elusive and potentially hazardous World War II shipwreck off the coast of Florida, for the third time in less than two years ...
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U.K. Supreme Court makes ruling over $43 million in treasure from World War II ship sunk by Japanese torpedoes
The sinking of the the SS Tilawa — which has been called the ... use for commercial purposes" when the ship sank during World War II, the court said. The court first found in favor of Argentum ...
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Diary Kept On Board the SS Orbita
I was a member of the RAF contingent on the SS Orbita 1, a troopship in WW2. Most of us were aircrew volunteers aged 18-20, going for training as pilots, navigators and bomb aimers within the ...
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Finnish WWII troops participated in mass murders of Jews, new government report finds
The Finnish SS volunteers with the SS Wiking division ... and significant historical events" in Finland's complex World War II history. "We share the responsibility for ensuring that such ...