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Downfall of Italy: 1944–1945

This video continues the story of Italy’s collapse in the final years of World War II. It examines the Allied advance up the ...
In September 1943, as Nazi paratroopers and SS commandos were rescuing the deposed fascist dictator Benito Mussolini from his mountaintop prison in Italy, elsewhere in Europe Italian soldiers were ...
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Ever since the days of the Roman Empire, European ...
Billy Earl Kirby, 101, was injured in one of World War II's worst battles, the Rapido River crossing at Cassina, Italy. The former Zebulon, N.C., resident now lives at The Landing, an independent ...
Off the southern tip of Sicily, divers discovered the remains of a WWII plane and were able to reconstruct its mission. Screengrab from the Soprintendenza Del Mare's Facebook post On March 2, 1943, a ...
The annual German-Italian memorial ceremony at McClellan was canceled. – Veterans Affairs officials now require background checks for any foreign dignitaries. – Ceremony organizers rejected the checks ...
This short tells a story about how the world would look if Germany had won WW2. If Germany won, the things in the world would ...
Germany filed an application Friday to bring proceedings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Italy for continuing to allow victims of Nazi war crimes to claim compensation from Germany ...
German engineers and scientists created some exceptional and novel military designs during WWII. Granted, not everything they created was an instant success, and they even created one fighter jet that ...
The submarine is perhaps the most effective ocean-going craft for defeating naval vessels, and it was one of the most feared and revered weapons of World War II. While several countries built and ...
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Germany tried twice in the 20th century to conquer Europe ...