The Devil’s Brigade struck terror into the hearts of the Germans they were sent to fight. And they did so under the toughest scenarios, climbing sheer cliffs to surprise the enemy or impersonating them to gain needed intelligence.
by Bonnie Hackmann, special from Ferdinand News “Get a goat to lead the parade and round up the Jews and bring them to the train station,” Hans Mansfield was told by the Nazi commander in Aachen, Germany near the end of World War II. Mansfield, a precinct police chief in Aachen, was not about to…
Roman Kiefer joined the Navy during World War II and was serving aboard the carrier USS Princeton in the Leyte Gulf on October 24, 1944 as the light carrier was destroyed by a single bomb dropped by a Japanese “Judy”. The lone Japanese plane suddenly appeared from the cloud cover and dropped two 550 pound…
