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Józef Tusk (23 March 1907 – 12 June 1987) was a Polish luthier, the grandfather of the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk. During World War II , he served in the Wehrmacht , which proved to be controversial during the 2005 Polish presidential election .
e. Donald Franciszek Tusk[ a ] (born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician and historian who has served as the prime minister of Poland since 2023, having previously held the post from 2007 to 2014. From 2014 to 2019 Tusk was President of the European Council, and from 2019 to 2022 he was the president of the European People's Party (EPP).
An M4A1 (76) W -based United States Rhino tank crashes through a hedgerow. " Rhino tank " (initially called "Rhinoceros") [1] was the American nickname for Allied tanks fitted with "tusks", or bocage cutting devices, during World War II. The British designation for the modifications was Prongs. In the summer of 1944, during the Battle of ...
Westerplatte is a common venue for state remembrance ceremonies relating to World War II, usually held on 1 September. They are generally attended by high-ranking Polish politicians such as Prime Minister Donald Tusk (2014), [54] President Bronisław Komorowski (2015), [55] President Andrzej Duda (2016), [56] and Prime Minister Beata Szydło ...
World War II. The Tuskegee Airmen / tʌsˈkiːɡiː / [1] was a group of African American military pilots (fighter and bomber) and airmen who fought in World War II. They formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group (Medium) of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). The name also applies to the navigators, bombardiers ...
Unconditional Surrender has been a topic of controversy many times, both pro and con, but in 2019, [22] after the man thought to be the subject of the original photograph, V-J Day in Times Square died and media coverage that followed made it better known that the woman thought to be the other subject was not known to the sailor depicted and had ...
The Katyn massacre[ a ] was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military and police officers, border guards, and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD (the Soviet secret police), at Stalin 's order in April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the Kalinin and Kharkiv ...
Bloody Saturday (Chinese: 血腥的星期六; pinyin: Xuèxīng de Xīngqíliù) is a black-and-white photograph taken on 28 August 1937, a few minutes after a Japanese air attack struck civilians during the Battle of Shanghai in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Depicting a Chinese baby crying within the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai South railway ...