As he slowly staggered through the barren desert towards the British lines, the only distinguishing feature was the uniform of the Afrika Korps, the German unit under the command of Field Marshal ...

When German Afrika Korps prisoners of war began arriving in ... More: Wilmington constructed 243 cargo ships during WWII. What happened to them? The Army prevailed and constructed a stockade ...

From its nova-like existence, the German Afrika Korps emerged as perhaps World War II’s most celebrated fighters ... Rubbing sand might clean uniforms of grime and sweat. Trucks delivered ...

Commanding the German Afrika Korps, it seemed like the man who history remembers as the Desert Fox could not be stopped. The British Empire forces opposing him changed leaders several times until ...

While many Acadiana men were in Europe fighting Nazi Germany in WWII, more than 2,000 German prisoners of war ... Erwin Rommel's infamous Afrika Korps, wrote WWII historian C.J. Christ in ...

(WHDH) - A Hudson restaurant is apologizing to its customers after several World War II reenactors ate a meal inside while dressed as German soldiers. Wearing military uniforms, 350 reenactors ...

Aliceville's initial influx of prisoners (members of Rommel's elite Afrika Korps who had been captured ... is said to be the largest collection of WWII POW memorabilia in the United States.

The actual situation at the front hit home when a group of several hundred German POWS who had been ... He recalled that when Germany surrendered, the Afrika Korps soldiers volunteered "to a ...

The epic tug-of-war struggle in North Africa between Britain's famed 7th Armoured Division and Rommel's Afrika Korps serves as ... mass and scale of those World War II battles.

One of the most daring undercover operations of World War II was under way ... to make his way back to base in a German army lorry and a stolen Afrika Korps uniform. He argued that, if he could ...

he had been captured in North Africa by the Afrika Korps in late 1941, had escaped, and, wearing bits of German army uniform, made his way across the desert back to Allied lines. The experience ...

As he slowly staggered through the barren desert towards the British lines, the only distinguishing feature was the uniform of the Afrika Korps, the German unit under the command of Field Marshal ...