At 7:23 a.m. on June 18th, 1944, Sergeant Jacob Mertens stood in the third floor window of a half-destroyed farmhouse outside Cartown, France. Through his CAR 98K scope, he watched …
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The first German prisoners crossed into Camp Concordia, Kansas on July 4th, 1943. They had eaten nothing but watery cabbage soup for six days. The messaul doors opened at 1700 …
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RAAF Official photograph, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons A New Fighter Emerges In the early 1950s, Australia faced a growing challenge in the skies. Pilots flying British-built Meteors were outmatched …
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A prototype Tiger tank was demonstrated to Hitler on his birthday; 20 April 1942. 366 days later, the first complete Tiger 1 fell into Allied hands. It was Tiger 131. …
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