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    Harold Huglin (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
    combat missions, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross for leading one on Magdeburg in August 1944. After the war he served on the staff of the U.S. Air Forces...
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  • French Colony of Magdeburg develops. 1691 - Rathaus Magdeburg [de] (city hall) rebuilt. 1702 - Magdeburg Citadel [de] built. 1721 - Fort Berge [de] construction...
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    British Indians Offizierlager Burg bei Magdeburg. Camp for 900 prisoners. Halle. Camp in a disused factory. Magdeburg. Camp on an island in the river. Torgau...
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    Development work was then halted and limited production was begun by Krupp in Magdeburg (Grusonwerk AG), Essen and Bochum in October 1939 with 20 vehicles built...
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    Unlike earlier forts, polygonal forts had no bastions, which had proved to be vulnerable. As part of ring fortresses, polygonal forts were generally arranged...
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    Heuschrecke 10 (category World War II self-propelled artillery of Germany)
    Waffenträger Geschützwagen IVb (Pz. Sfl. IVb) and was to be built in Magdeburg, Germany. The Heuschrecke featured a removable turret which could be deployed...
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    as well as pushing elements east. XIX Corps of the Ninth Army captured Magdeburg on 18 April and the US XIII Corps to the north occupied Stendal. The US...
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    World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in...
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  • Huguenot rebellions Siege of Alès (1629) – Huguenot rebellions Sack of Magdeburg (1631) – Thirty Years' War Siege of Maastricht (1632) – Eighty Years'...
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    it. By the early 12th century, the German archbishoprics of Bremen and Magdeburg sought the conversion to Christianity of neighboring pagan West Slavs...
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