Here’s What You Need to Remember: Though imperfect, the FG 42 had several important features in its favor. And they were some of the best weapons in the war. During the Second World War, Germany’s ...

When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian navy unable to guarantee control of the seas, Adolf Hitler turned to his ...

In the histories of World War II, the Battle of Crete is remembered for several firsts. “Tired and ill-equipped” Allied troops had been pushed out of mainland Greece in early 1941, pursued by German ...

In May 1941, during the German invasion of Crete in World War II, Sergeant Alfred Clive Hume of New Zealand made a decision that would alter the survival of his battalion. As German Fallschirmjäger ...

The German paratroopers established a reputation in Crete as an elite force. A battalion commander now led a new Fallschirmjäger regiment, deployed to Normandy in the spring of 1944 to the very area ...

Operation Mercury commences as fallschirmjäger airborne troops land on the Greek island of Crete. A bloody and messy battle follows as it turns out to be costly in more ways than one. Trump Warns of ...

He works in mysterious ways.