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Operation Pastorius. The trial of the captured Germans, July 1942. Operation Pastorius was a failed German intelligence plan for sabotage inside the United States during World War II. The operation was staged in June 1942 and was to be directed against strategic American economic targets. The operation was named by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris ...
Johann Conrad Weiser Sr. (1662–1746) was a German soldier, baker, and farmer who fled his homeland with thousands of other Germans from the Palatinate region due to constant invasions by French armies and destruction of crops. As a result, Weiser, along with his countrymen, became known as the German Palatines.
Rittenhouse established America's first paper mill on the Monoshone Creek. William Rittenhouse (1644 – 1708) was an American papermaker and businessman. He served as an apprentice papermaker in the Netherlands and, after moving to the Pennsylvania Colony, established the first paper mill in the North American colonies, helping to meet the growing demand for paper among the Early American ...
History of Rochester, New York. An aerial view of downtown Rochester from 1938. Urban Rochester as seen from the air. Settlement of the city of Rochester in western New York State began in the late 18th century, and the city flourished with the opening of the Erie Canal. It became a major manufacturing center, and attracted many Italians ...
Decks: 1.5–3 in (38–76 mm) The Pennsylvania class consisted of two super-dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy just before the First World War. Named Pennsylvania and Arizona, after the American states of the same names, the two battleships were the United States' second battleship design to adhere to the " all or nothing ...
The American Theater [1] was a theater of operations during World War II including all continental American territory, and extending 200 miles (320 km) into the ocean.. Owing to North and South America's geographical separation from the central theaters of conflict (in Europe, the Mediterranean and Middle East, and the Pacific) the threat of an invasion of the continental U.S. or other areas ...
Francis Daniel Pastorius (September 26, 1651— c. 1720 [1]: xii, 286 ) was a German-born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official.He was the founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, now part of Philadelphia, the first permanent German-American settlement and the gateway for subsequent emigrants from Germany.
Both NYC Landmarks were designed by William Schickel and built during 1883–1884. Little Germany, known in German as Kleindeutschland and Deutschländle and called Dutchtown by contemporary non-Germans, [1] was a German immigrant neighborhood on the Lower East Side and East Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City.