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A Rescue Mission Gone Wrong
Norman Crockatt is not a well-known name, but the British intelligence officer was responsible for one of the most controversial decisions of World War II. When the War Office in London created Military Intelligence Section 9 (MI9) on December 23, 19
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Fighting For Lafiere Bridge
On the evening of June 5, 1944, Louis Leroux, his wife, and their six children scrambled atop an embankment near their farm to investigate the sounds of distant explosions. Three miles south, Allied fighter-bombers were attacking bridges over the Dou
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Murdered Polish Family Beatified By Pope
THE NAZIS KILLED THEM ALL. The father, an amateur photographer and Catholic activist. The mother, seven months pregnant. The boys, aged 2 to 5. The girls, 18 months to 7 years old. Their crime? Hiding eight Jews in German-occupied Poland in 1944. The

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