By Todd Hubert April 2016 At 0445 hours on the morning of September 1, 1939, German divisions supported by tactical aircraft and mobile armor poured
Category: World War II
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The year was 1955, the month October, the region West Germany. In the decade that had passed since the end of the Second World War,
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