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Josef Vlach was born on 20 September 1919 in Pilsen. At the outbreak of war, he fought against the German invasion of Cz...
#Biografia
Jiří Rádl was born on 7 January 1928 in Pilsen. During the Second World War, he and his classmates from the fourth year ...
During the Second World War, Sergeant James H. Duncan Snr was commander of the “F” Company of the 38th Infantry Regiment...
Ida Milotová (née Roučková) was born in Karlovy Vary in 1928. She grew up in Plzeň where her father was in charge of the...
Stanley Hollis was the only one soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross medal on 6 June 1944....
On 18 July 1944, General Montgomery launched a new offensive, Operation Goodwood, southeast of Caen, to fully capture th...
#Storyline
Tadeusz served with his father in the Home Army. He started his service with the partisans of the legendary Major Dobrza...
When the Second World War broke out in 1939, Ryszard Książyński was only 15 years old. Ryszard was a boyscout and loved ...
Jerzy Krusenstern came from aristocratic European families. Before the war, he was a boyscout which helped to prepare hi...
Jan Karski era un membro dello Stato clandestino polacco e un testimone dell'Olocausto. Su ordine dei suoi comandanti, p...
Elżbieta Zawacka was a courier and emissary of the commander of the Polish Home Army, the most important resistance orga...
She attracted attention by her attitude, her colourful costumes and by a programme that alternated Russian and Chinese d...
“Throughout my life at the front there has not been an instant when I have not longed to be in battle. I want to be wher...
In 1950, Australian writer Paul Brickhill published “The Great Escape”. The book was based on a mass escape of 76 Allied...
Irma Grese era una guardia del campo di concentramento femminile (Aufseherin). Aveva solo 18 anni quando iniziò a presta...
Horst Willner was a German U-boat commander. Between January and May 1945 he took part in a large naval evacuation opera...
Slávka Altmanová was born on 8 August 1923 in Volhynia. She witnessed the Soviet invasion in 1939 as well as the German ...
Richard Smola was born in Pilsen on the 3 June 1930. He witnessed the bombing of the city and its liberation by U.S. for...
Mapping the terrain of the beaches in Normandy was essential in preparing suitable landing craft and training troops for...
#Storia
During the preparations for D-Day, civilians in Southeast England saw thousands of troops and vehicles descend upon thei...
Jimmy Tompkins was a professional footballer who played for Fulham FC based at Craven Cottage stadium in Fulham. Tompkin...
The Women’s Royal Naval Service, or WRNS/Wrens, was re-established in 1939 and to take up a number of ancillary duties s...
Evelyn Lipmann sopravvisse a quattro campi di concentramento e fu finalmente liberata dal campo di Salzwedel nell'aprile...
Gustav Krukenberg was an SS general, who commanded several European Waffen-SS units during the Battle of Berlin....
