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The uprising in Warsaw

By Marc A. Thiessen WARSAW, Poland - Most Americans know the story of the "boys of Pointe du Hoc," the brave Army Rangers who scaled the cliffs of Normandy and liberated France from Nazi occupation. But 70 years ago, the city of Warsaw was liberated by actual boys and girls - many of them teenagers and children armed with makeshift guns and molotov cocktails - who helped take back the Polish capital from its Nazi occupiers on Aug. 1, 1944, and held it for 63 bloody, courageous days.

In this still from the film "City of Ruins", provided by The Warsaw Uprising Museum and Platige Image, the ruins of Warsaw are seen in 1944 after the uprising. Polish historians have created an unusual 3D film that documents the shocking sea of rubble that Warsaw was reduced to during World War II. (AP Photo/Warsaw Uprising Museum and Platige Image)
In this still from the film "City of Ruins", provided by The Warsaw Uprising Museum and Platige Image, the ruins of Warsaw are seen in 1944 after the uprising. Polish historians have created an unusual 3D film that documents the shocking sea of rubble that Warsaw was reduced to during World War II. (AP Photo/Warsaw Uprising Museum and Platige Image)Read moreAP
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