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πΈ Women at War
Nancy Wake: The Woman Who Smuggled 2,600 Prisoners Out of France
Nancy Wake was born in New Zealand and became one of the most decorated women of WWII. As a resistance organizer in France, she helped spirit away 2,600 people β including hundreds of downed Allied airmen β through the P...
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βοΈ Codebreakers & Technology
The Nazi Rocket Scientists Who Were Hiding in Argentina
After the war, more than 100 Nazi scientists β including several from the V-2 rocket program β escaped through ODESSA (a network of former SS officers) to Argentina, Spain, and Egypt. Perhaps the most remarkable escape w...
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US Army Air Forces, 15th Air Force, 98th Bombing Group
B-24 Pilot Robert S. — Foggia, Italy / Central Europe — 1943-1944
I flew 35 missions over PloieΘti, Vienna, Budapest, and Berlin. My closest call: over Vienna in February 1944, my B-24 took a direct 20mm shell through the cockpit, killing my co-pilot instantly. His blood covered my flight controls. I had to land the plane with my hands covered in it, trying not to look at his face. His name was Paul Hartman. He was 21. We made it back to Foggia, Italy. I delivered his body to the medics and went to get coffee. Then I threw up for twenty minutes. The squadron commander came and found me and said: 'You're flying again tomorrow.' I said 'yes sir.' What else was...