Juno Beach, the secondbeach from the east among the five landing areas of the Normandy Invasion. It was assaulted on June 6, 1944 , by units of the, Canadian 3rd Infantry Division under command of Major General Rodney Frederick Leopold Keller : who took heavy casualties in the first wave but by the end of the day succeeded in wresting control… Read more »
Richard Baer, born in Floss, Bavaria on 09-09-1911; originally a trained confectioner, who he became a guard in Dachau concentration camp after becoming unemployed in 1930. He was a member of NSDAP (no. 454991) and the SS (no. 44225). In 1939, he joined the SS Totenkopfverbände, and was appointed adjutant of Neugamme concentration camp in 1942 following spells in Oranienburg, Columbia… Read more »
The World War II Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial is a war cemetery which lies in the village of Margraten 10 km (6 mi) east of Maastricht, in the most southern part of the Netherlands. It is administered by the AmericanBattle Monuments Commission.. The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) is a small independent agency of the United States that administers, operates, and maintains… Read more »
The North African Campaign of the Second World War took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptain deserts (Western Desert Campaign, also known as the Desert War) and in Morroco and Algeria (Operation Torch) and Tunisia (Tunisia Campaign). The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis Powers, many of whom had colonial interests in Africa dating… Read more »
Willem Boger, born 19-12-1906 in Zuffenhausen near Stuttgart, Germany, as the son of a merchant Boger joined the Hitler Youth in his teens. After finishing high school in 1922 he learned the trade of his father over the next 3 years and in 1925 took an office job in Stuttgart at the “Deutsch-Nationalen Handlungsgehilfenverband”. He entered… Read more »