As the Allies prepared to invade Normandy, a small team of SAS commandos and 400 straw-filled burlap dummies duped the Nazis ...

Brockville Rifles Contributed Over 150 Soldiers, Playing a Significant Role in D-Day Brockville – It was eighty-one years ago today, June 6th, 1944, that Canadian forces stormed Juno Beach ...

The primary objective of the 21st Panzer Division was to cut off the American supply lines. However, they did not anticipate the fierce resistance from the 12th Armored Division and the French forces.

In the Second World War, Adolf Hitler established a new unit of young soldiers under the command of Himmler in the Waffen SS, known as the 12th Panzer Division. This division consisted of soldiers ...

The engagement was fought between the elements of the German 4th Panzer Group and the Soviet 3rd Mechanized Corps and the 12th Mechanized ... “[T]he German 6th Panzer Division was held up ...

“There was rain and snow, and I was never warm,” said Frank Cohn, who was a private with a U.S. Army intelligence unit attached to the 12th Army ... the 1st SS Panzer Division, which had ...

“The 1st SS Panzer Division was coming down the road with ... Cohn and another interpreter were attached to the 12th Army Group. They were sent to Belgium just a week before the Battle of ...

On June 7, the day after the D-Day landings at Juno Beach in Normandy, the 25th regiment of the 12th SS Panzer Division (Hitlerjugend) met a Canadian battlegroup comprised of the North Nova Scotia ...

To capture the village of Cheux or 'chooks' as the Scottish soldiers called it, (just a few miles from Caen) which was held by elements of the German 12th Panzer Division. READ NOW: The 30 TV ...

Rommel asked that the 12th SS Panzer Division, for example, be stationed at Isigny rather than at Evreux. That would have placed it less than 10 miles from Omaha Beach rather than roughly 110 ...