Ulrich Wegener, the police commando who led the 1977 West German raid that rescued 90 people from a Lufthansa jetliner that four militants had hijacked and flown to Somalia, died Dec. 28 in Cologne.
The incredible World War II saga of the German-Jewish commandos who fought in Britain’s most secretive special-forces unit — but whose story has gone untold until now. June 1942. The shadow of the ...
Lois Rybka-Dysard of Ghent never knew the significance of her father's World War II combat duty until a military historian looked at a box of medals, read the veteran's DD 214 discharge papers and saw ...