1. The US playing card company ‘Bicycle’ had manufactured special playing cards during WW2. When the card was soaked, it would reveal an escape route for POWs. These cards were Christmas presents for all POWs in Germany. 2. Franz Von Werra, a Nazi POW was transferred to Canada to deter his multiple escapes and recaptures. […]
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The British Army used a variety of standardised battle uniforms and weapons during World War I. According to the British official historian BrigadierJames E. Edmonds recorded in 1925, “The British Army of 1914 was the best trained best equipped and best organised British Army ever sent to war”. They were the only army to wear any form of a camouflage uniform; the value of Drab
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He went out alone to rescue wounded men who had been left behind when their comrades were forced to retreat from the German army… There was nothing they could do. Wounded soldiers cried out for help as they lay scattered beneath Mannequin Hill. But with enemy machine gun and shell fire raining down from above,
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