Gericke participated in the Battle of the Netherlands and the Battle of Crete as a Battalion commander of the Fallschirmjäger. He later commanded the Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 11 and fought in the defensive battles at Anzio. He joined the newly formed Bundeswehr after the rearmament of West Germany and as a Generalmajor led the 1. Luftlande-Division from 1962 to 1965.
U.S. PresidentBarack Obama met one-on-one with President-elect Donald Trump for 90 minutes at the White House on Thursday in part as a courtesy call and get-to-know-you session slightly more than 36 hours after the nation delivered a stunning upset to the current president’s legacy, Time magazine reported. Obama described the meeting as “an excellent conversation” touching on a wide range of organizational issues and foreign policy....
Two days after RepublicanDonald Trump surprisingly became the nation’s 45th president and Mexico’s foreign minister insisted his country would not pay for a border wall separating the southern United States from Mexico, several prominent Republicans believe Trump can get the wall built through presidential order, TribuneMedia reported Thursday.GOPSenate leader Sen....
It sounds like astrology, but one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals has reported that the date of your birth determines which sorts of influenza you are most at risk of catching, IFLScience reports ... However, some outbreaks don't obey the rule. The H5N1 strain, for example, mostly affects the young, while H7N9 is a terror in retirement homes ... – James Lloyd-Smith....
(Source. The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation) ...November 10, 2016 ... 174 ... By some miracle, I wasn't injured in the crash itself, but I was shot in the hand later while I was being evacuated with two pilots, Walter McNees and Dave Adams ... I saw Walter and Dave, who survived the flight with me, for the first time in 47 years ... I'll be joining my Huey, pilots Walter and Dave, and Gary and Steve's sisters in New York City this week ... (noodl....
Walter Meyers (Danny Glover) gathers his four children — and eccentric Aunt May — back at home for Christmas, with all the highs and lows that make the holidays what they are ... ....
(Source. Gwinnett County, GA). WHAT. Gwinnett officials will host a Veterans Day ceremony to pay tribute to the men and women who have served honorably in the military, during wartime or peacetime ... The Veterans Day Ceremony will be televised beginning at noon on Nov ... WHEN ... Walter 'Carter' Tucker, retired Army chaplain and author of Men Who Fought ......
WESTPALM BEACH, Fla. - It was built with the intention of becoming a winter retreat for presidents, now the Mar-a-Lago might be just that for President-elect Donald Trump... “It’s an absolutely beautiful setting ... They had strict guidelines for us. only film the stage and nothing in the surrounding area, only film our own Ashleigh Walters who served as a speaker and don't talk to anyone in the room. ... Reporter ... ....
A powerful Taliban truck bomb struck the German consulate in Afghanistan's northern Mazar-i-Sharif city, killing at least two people and wounding more than 100 in a major militant assault in the war-torn country ... German officials in Kabul declined to comment when contacted by AFP. A diplomatic source in Berlin said Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier had convened a crisis meeting at his ministry ... ....
Mazar-i-Sharif. A powerful Taliban truck bomb struck the German consulate in Afghanistan's northern Mazar-i-Sharif city, killing at least two people and wounding more than 100 in a major militant assault in the war-torn country ... German officials in Kabul declined to comment when contacted by AFP. A diplomatic source in Berlin said Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier had convened a crisis meeting at his ministry ... ....