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For 77 years, the remains of U.S. Army Sgt. Bernard J. Sweeney Jr., a casualty of World War II, went unidentified, including decades in a Belgian cemetery where he was known only by a number: X ...
French authorities said on Wednesday, November 15, they were investigating damage done to Jewish graves in a German World War I military cemetery, as anti-Semitic acts are on the rise across the ...
In the spring of 1945, he made several trips to the German city of Aachen, on the border with the Netherlands and Belgium, to assess damage to historic monuments, including the Aachen Cathedral ...
Military casket bearers carry the remains of an unknown American soldier from World War I to his final grave site at Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in Seringes-et-Nesles, France, on Wednesday, June ...
He was buried in a military cemetery in ... nearly 72,000 American troops from WWII still missing with about ... them 40 miles south of Cherbourg in the Marigny German War Cemetery.
Faction: The German Army The First World War Germany was recognised as having the most efficient army in the world. It utilized mass conscription for short-term military service followed by a ...
Establishing the German Military Cemetery. In 1952, the German War Graves Commission, in an attempt to produce a site where family members could go to grieve loved ones who died in Ireland, ...
But by early 1917, German submarine attacks on American ships and the infamous Zimmermann telegram — in which Germany proposed a military alliance with Mexico — forced a reckoning. On April 6 ...
This Cemetery Is the Final Resting Place for the Army’s ‘Dishonorable Dead’ (Wikimedia Commons) With the exception of the infamous deserter Eddie Slovik (who was buried here after becoming ...
In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI ...
If his family can’t be found, researchers said, his remains will be reburied at a German military cemetery in eastern France. Soissons is in northern France, about a 70-mile drive northeast from ...
A World War II soldier who was killed in the mountains of France during a German offensive in 1944 has been identified, and his remains will be reburied at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia ...