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Victory in Europe Day: Forgotten Indians who fought WWII
Of the 20 Victoria Crosses awarded for gallantry in Italy, six were awarded to Indians. They were Naik Yeshwant Ghadge (posthumous), Sepoys Namdeo Jadav, Kamal Ram and Ali Haidar; and riflemen Sher ...
The elite Swiss Guard watching over conclave have a dramatic role as papal bodyguards
The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...
Italy’s areas of wartime fascist resistance remain less susceptible to the far right today
Those asking how to counter the far right might look at the communities in Italy where partisan resistance was strong.
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WWII’s Most Dangerous Paratroopers: Fallschirmjäger in Italy
Breaching The Gothic Line in 1944 would test the allies, especially the Americans as they tried to push north to the Po River ...
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Soldiers at Lake Garda commemorate 10th Mountain tragedy and Col. Darby’s death in WWII
Exactly 80 years ago, on April 30, 1945, Darby and Sgt. Maj. John “Tim” Evans, were killed. On that same day in WWII, a DUKW ...
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US soldiers in Italy connect with WWII past on 80th anniversary of Battle of Vicenza
Just over 80 years ago, American troops entered this Venetian city and defeated a ragged but determined German force to ...
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Unboxing Another Interesting WWII Helmet Net!
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82 years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, its last living fighter bears witness
Michael Smuss helped smuggle supplies needed during the Jewish resistance against the Nazis; he shares how a series of 'lucky ...
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Italian & British Heroes Join Stoessi’s World War II Collection
The first of the miniatures is for Lieutenant General Annibale Bergonzoli who was a high-ranking Italian officer who served during World War I, the Spanish Civil War and World War II. During World War ...