Some Jews who managed to escape from ghettos and camps formed their own fighting units. These fighters, or partisans, were concentrated in densely...
The Battle for Kursk took place betwwen July 4, 1943 to August 23, 1943. The Battle for Kursk was called "Operation Zitadelle" by the Germans....
People have the idea that the winter of 1941/42 was in favour of the Russian side, that all the troubles of the Wehrmacht resulted from this cold...
Enough here to start a debate.. :oops: Benito Mussolini was born in Predappio, Romagna, July 29, 1883. Benito qualified as an elementary...
From what I know from school history, Dunkirk wasn't really a battle - it was the mass retreat of the BEF and the remains of the French military....
Some of these pictures can be found else where in the forums, thou i thought it was a good idea to add a crisbecq picture only thread as well as...
I have read a number of books by this author finding that the titles of his books tend to draw you to buy the books that he has written, in some...
The Battle of Stalingrad is thought to have claimed more lives than any other single conflict of the Second World War. In 1942, April 5, Hitler...
The Deed. He was 35 years old, and a Temporary Major in The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, British Army, attd. The South Staffordshire...
April 7, 1945, the first of German 'kamikaze ' attacks on Allied aircraft took place west of Hannover. Driven by desperation, the volunteer pilots...
The Battle of Huertgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) is the name given to the series of fierce battles fought between U.S. and German...
Too daft to be true, but hey, if someone can fill me in great. i heard that the Soviets were training dogs to run under tanks so as to attach...
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?
On 1 September, German forces overran Poland. The wide, open plains of Poland were ideally suited to the rapid movement of tanks central to a...
is it true that the British developed concentration camps (without the negative connotations that has today)? My father said it was to intern...
No two ways of putting it, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was nothing short of sheer barbarism. Sure, revenge for Pearl...
I have heard that the Enigma machine was actually susbequently recycled and used by the CIA....is this true?
This picture shows several American Curtiss P40 Warhawks flying in formation: [IMG] Mass-produced, tough, and liked by pilots, the British...
The first “Vergeltungswaffen” campaign commenced on 12th June 1944 and lasted until 5th September. Allied intelligence had been aware of German...