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Events 29/11/2024
Thanksgiving 1944
Banner photo: Corporal Leo Kaller enjoying a Thanksgiving turkey in November 1944 (Wikimedia Commons/Us Army) After the difficulties encountered during the Battle of Normandy, and the...
Events 24/08/2024
The Dronne Column and the Liberation of Paris
It was led by Captain Raymond Dronne, a veteran of the North African campaigns who had been ordered by Leclerc to return to Paris on 24 August. It included an engineer section, two infantry sections...
Events 13/04/2023
The United States declaration of war of April 6, 1917
Why did the United States enter World War I so late? Two and a half years after the beginning of the war, just 106 years ago, on April 6, 1917, the U.S. Congress declared war on the German Empire....
