Herebelow is the cover page of the LIFE magazine of 16th Dec 1940. Evzones had (and have) not only physically but psycologically training as well...
So he liked to be long in presenting his points of view from the begining. From Wikipeadia some additional info about the circumstances of the...
Sir Patrick "Paddy" Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO , OBE died on 10 June at the age of 96. A SOE officer, famous for his action in Greece during WW2....
I believe that a fresh new breeze is always wellcome. A sector which is not be discussed is a new challenge that can give energy and knowledge to...
It is the official site of the US Navy. For some reason I cannot understand, it is not available. Maybe this is temporary. Anyway please try this...
The protocol of Potsdam which reconfirmed the decisions taken at Tehran (under the strong pressure of Stalin) accepted that the population of...
I think that movies like 'Iron Cross', and 'Stalingrad', and also 'Enemy at the gates' which shows the story (or the History) from the German side...
In my opinion, any forum is a living system so it is a dynamic system. New minds are getting into and old minds are leaving or some times they...
I read the article in a local Ikarian newspaper 'Atheras' edition Jan-Mar 2011. There are not many details but as all relevant stories from WW2,...
Apostolos Santas, died last Saturday. His history in brief from wipipedia. (February 22, 1922 – April 30 2011) commonly known as Lakis, was a...
Just a look in the map and it is obvious that Caen was a key point. If the Allies could break the German Front and take Caen, then the way to...
This is 100% true. If with this German policy Vlasov made 6 divisions, imagine what could happened if Germans get into the Soviet democracies as...
I fully agree. It is very difficult to capture the full picture of the Great Patriot War from the begining till the end. This presentation is very...
The above is just a necessary (i think) introduction. In my opinion the marching Red Army (or some units only) made many atrocities against the...
There are threads that unify the members and others which separate them. I think that reality is reality. Even if someone close his eyes he cannot...
Back to Fr. Paulus, the other students in the military school called him 'der Lord' because he took care too much his appearance (good manors,...
Fr. Paulus was married an aristocratic lady. If i remember well it was a lady from Romania who her family had Byzantine (Eastern Roman Empire)...
Of course Paulus wasn't a 'von' since his family was not an aristocratic one. Then why everyone calls him von Paulus? What is the reason for...
Another interesting thing. Before some years an auction trading house gave for sale an original distinctive mark of the BFC unit. The funny thing...
Thank you all for your time. At that time Japanese had developed a type of Radar and this caused problems in night attacks because they can...
