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COLDITZ CASTLE RISES high above the surrounding country- side of Germany’s eastern Saxony region, its white walls and narrow windows peering down at the Mulde River and the small town of Colditz below. Designated Oflag (“officer camp”) IV-C by the Wehrmacht in 1939, the 16th-century castle was assumed to be escape proof. Its prisoners spent …
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Valor: The Normandy RangerLeonard G. Lomell U.S. Army Distinguished Service Cross Pointe du Hoc, France June 6, 1944 Leonard G. ‘Bud’ Lomell is a leg- end among U.S. Army Rangers. Inducted into the Ranger H… Read MoreWWII WASP Jane DoyleDoyle was one of 1,000 volunteers chosen to fly for the wartime Women Airforce Service Pilots
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