After The Battle #091 – The Hammelburg Raid

Karel Margry describes the raid and follows the route taken by the task force of the US 4th ArmoRed Division led by Captain Abraham J. Baum to fight its way through 50 miles of enemy – held territory to reach the Allied officers’ POW camp where General George S. Patton’s son – in – law was being held. The Eastern Front – Smolensk – Karel Margry visits the City on the upper Dnieper river, 200 miles from Moscow. Crime in WWII – Mutiny in the Cocos Islands – The story of three members of the Ceylon Defence Force who were the only members of the British Armed Forces to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.

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