I have heard Market Garden described my uncle a paratrooper himself, as one of the biggest "military screw ups ever, and Montgomery missed the...
Doies anyone know why the Germans on thier retreat from Paris did not raise the city, I have always found it curious that they left it intact?
The Kaoru Airborne Raiding Detachment, November 1944 The Kaoru Airborne Raiding Detachment was formed as an element of the Guerrilla Unit...
How about we start some threads here about the battles tat took place in the Pacific that won the war against Japan?
Utah Beach was the furthest west of the five beaches designated for the D-Day landings in June 1944. Located at the base of the Cotentin...
without a dowt in the world i think Saving Private Ryan is the best war film off all time and it has been voted the best War of all time
For some reason the two main enemies of World War 2 never seemed to want to help each other out. There wa snot a single battle that Germany and...
Saw this on UKTV History last night. Very good film. Me & the boy enjoyed it a lot. True story of a Russian Sniper in Stalingrad & the German sent...
Ardennes offensive - coincidentally very recent additions to You Tube, the German ones being added just 4 days ago ! Excellent stuff, and in the...
During the Battle of the Bulge, some American soldiers were taken prisoner by the Germans. What followed in the months ahead was nothing less than...
Would the Ardennes include this terrible battle? This was realistically depicted in "Band of Brothers" In which the men of Easy Company were...
Found this to be a very good read, but what made think it is a litte biased!! On 1st September 1944 Eisenhower took over formal command of all...
Lexington entered service in 1928 and was joined the same year by her sister ship. Both ships were assigned to the Pacific Fleet where they would...
Saratoga was one of only two pre-war carriers that saw combat service in the Pacific and survived. The attack on Pearl Harbour saw the ship off...
These days you always hear about how Britain was able to withstand the German attacks on a daily basis and how heroic the Brits were. To go along...
For the campaign against the Soviet Union, the Germans allotted three army groups, totalling approximately 3.3 million men, along with 1 million...
By the Spring of 1944, the Allied preparations for the invasion of France and the initial stages for the liberation of western Europe (Operation...
Control of Southern Europe, the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa was important because the British Empire depended on shipping through the Suez...
The Battle of the Atlantic, a nautical campaign which lasted the duration of the war, started after the German invasion of Poland with the...
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, using the false pretext of a faked "Polish attack" on a German border post. On September 3, the...