After suffering heavy losses during the airborne assault and capture of Crete, Hitler never again committed his airborne troops to large-scale operations and they were instead used as ground infantry.
Grandmother, 90, finally reveals her astonishing past as Dutch resistance ... Daily Mail The frail pensioner, who has lived in Scotland since 1948, has finally told how she became a decorated WW2 hero who was part of an elite fighting force in the Dutch Resistance. Mrs Scott dodged bullets, hid crucial supplies from the Nazis and helped ...
A pardon for Irish soldiers Irish Times The Irish Soldiers Pardons Campaign (WW2) has always accepted without equivocation that desertion is a serious offence and those found guilty of the offence of desertion or any military offence must suffer the consequences.