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PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE 25 SEPTEMBER - 13 OCTOBER 1915
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Three months after German forces captured Fort Douaumont in February 1916 (see issue 1 of Iron Cross) a calamity befell the occupiers, predominantly comprising troops from the Prussian Brandenburg reg
FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA, USA 11-15 DECEMBER 1862
How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned
KINGDOM OF SAXONY 16-19 OCTOBER 1813
The forced landing of a shot-up Junkers Ju 88A bomber of Kampfgeschwader (KG) 77 on the north Kent coast in late September 1940, during one of the bloodiest days of the Battle of Britain, gave rise to
On the night of 13 March 1944, the Greekregistered steamship SS Peleus was en route from Freetown to Buenos Aires when she was hit amidships by two torpedoes, launched by a German U-boat, U-852. The t