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Fallen Black South African Soldiers From World War I Finally Remembered
A new war memorial in Cape Town, South Africa, remembers the close to 2,000 casualties who served in Africa during World War 1, between 1914-1918 and who have no known graves and because they were ...
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Black Panthers: The African American Soldiers of the 761st Tank Battalion Who Fought at the Battle of the Bulge
They made a good first impression, but I have no faith in the inherent fighting ability of the race. This was what General Patton declared after inspecting the 761st Tank Battalion in 1944, on the eve ...
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Grant McGuire: World War I's Western Front begat modern warfare
I recently studied World War I in the Middle East through the book by Lawrence of Arabia, and then in East Africa through a ...
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Ukraine Is Losing Fewer Soldiers Than Russia — but It’s Still Losing the War
By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Constant Méheut Reporting from Berlin and Kyiv, Ukraine The war of attrition between Russia and Ukraine is killing soldiers at a pace unseen in Europe since World War II.
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South Africa: Fallen Black South African Soldiers From World War I Finally Remembered
These structures represent a new Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) memorial, which honors the contribution of the hundreds of Black South African military laborers of the First World War.