by drkeithcox | Dec 24, 2019 | History Matters, Main
On Christmas Eve in 1944, the snow turned red with blood On Christmas Eve 1944, in the besieged Belgian town of Bastogne, a U.S. Army doctor named John T. Prior was about to write a letter for a dying officer in the makeshift hospital next door. It was a lousy...
by drkeithcox | Dec 7, 2019 | History Matters, Main
German WWI wreck discovered off Falklands The wreck of a World War One German armoured cruiser has been located off the Falkland Islands, where it was sunk by the British navy 105 years ago. SMS Scharnhorst was the flagship of German Vice-Admiral Maximilian...
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