The Frontlines of Freedom e-newsletter just came out today, and it includes an error. The article regarding Americans receiving Germany’s highest award, the Gold Cross, was incomplete. It seems that there weren’t 3 soldiers who got the award, there...
The German equivalent to the Medal of Honor is the Gold Cross Medal. Only 4 German soldiers have ever received it and no foreign soldier has ever received it—until 12 May. A German parachute infantry unit was under very heavy fire in Afghanistan and...