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Michael Wittmann (22 April 1914 – 8 August 1944) was a German Waffen-SS tank commander during the Second World War.He is known for his ambush of elements of the British 7th Armoured Division during the Battle of Villers-Bocage on 13 June 1944.
Three water-filled tank ditches in the Wurm valley near Geilenkirchen; Tank obstacle south of Geilenkirchen consisting of concrete and U-profiles from Czech war booty material; Observation post near Herzogenrath-Bank; Diverse visible remains of four rows of dragon's teeth near Aachen-Eilendorf and Münsterbusch
On 8 June 2006, during the lead-up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup, an information board was installed to mark the location of the Führerbunker. The board, including a schematic diagram of the bunker, can be found at the corner of In den Ministergärten and Gertrud-Kolmar-Straße, two small streets about three minutes' walk from Potsdamer Platz.
The Tatarka common graves were mass graves discovered in April–August 1943, during World War II, by Axis-allied Romanian troops occupying Transnistria, on a lot of 1,000 m 2 (11,000 sq ft) in Tatarka, now Prylymanske , in Odesa Raion, near Odesa. Some 42 separate common graves of several dozen bodies each were identified, containing between ...
The remains of a World War II veteran have been returned to his family and are now buried in Philadelphia after more than eight decades. FOX 29's Greg Payne has the story.
A World War II soldier will be buried in Taylor after his remains were identified in 2023. U.S. Army Sgt. Leroy Cloud was killed in France in 1944.
May 23—The remains of a soldier from Northwood killed during World War II are headed back to New Hampshire, after being exhumed from the U.S. Military Cemetery in Algeria in 2022, U.S. Army ...
The Wolf's Lair (German: Wolfsschanze; Polish: Wilczy Szaniec) was Adolf Hitler's first Eastern Front military headquarters in World War II.. The headquarters was located in the Masurian woods, near the village of Görlitz (now Gierłoż), about 8 kilometres (5 miles) east of the town of Rastenburg (now Kętrzyn), in present-day Poland.