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Many WWI battles took place between the French ... the French army was firing on German soldiers with heavy artillery. An artillery shell hit the entrance of the Winterberg tunnel on the Chemin ...
Indiana was home to many residents of German descent when World War I began. Many stopped speaking German outside and downplayed their heritage.
A proposal to add five new names - including three German soldiers - follows a similar move by the city's New College in 1930, Merton and Magdalen Colleges in 1994 and University College in 2018.
More than 110 years later, the German officer's great, great grandson Philipp Cross has returned it to the soldier's family, who had been unaware of its existence until now. The diary of Alexander ...
World War One broke out on 28 July, 1914. Fifty years later, one of the German soldiers, Stefan Westmann, told the BBC about his experiences fighting in the conflict. World War One broke out on 28 ...
It was here, however, that the American “Doughboys” encountered their first serious opposition — the German Fifth Army ... training at the School of Military Aeronautics at the University ...
On Christmas Eve 1914, six months into World War I, a group of Allied and German soldiers put down their weapons for a brief time, shared cigarettes and chocolate with their enemies and joined in ...
Canadian soldiers in the Battle of Amiens, France, August 1918. The crowning moment came at the Battle of Amiens on August 8, 1918, in what top German general Erich Ludendorff described as the ...