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....
The Gallipoli operation cost Australia 26,111 casualties, 8,141 dead, New Zealand 7,571 casualties, 2,431 dead, Britain 120,000 casualties, 21,255...
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...
I have heard Market Garden described my uncle a paratrooper himself, as one of the biggest "military screw ups ever, and Montgomery missed the...
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The greatest perceived threat to civilians was aerial bombing with high explosive, incendiaries and poison gas, and in the prelude to war much...
In the post-war period the black market had come to be seen as a harmless game, typified by the antics of the roguish Private Walker in the...
M4, 3rd Platoon, "B" Company, 8th Tank Battalion, US 4th Armored Division, Avranches. [IMG] Illustration by Steven j. Zaloga
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...
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...
Nicholas Straussler Born in 1891, Nicholas Straussler Settled in Britain shortly before the Second World War. He already enjoyed a reputation as...
The medals shown represent the Iron Cross series of awards as re-instituted in September 1939. The Oak-Leaves, Oak-Leaves with Swords etc. were...
Major Ludwig Stautner Ludwig Stautner was an experienced combat veteran of World War I. In September 1916, as a junior NCO with the rank of...
Major Helmut Wick Helmut Wick was born in Mannheim in the State of Baden on 5 August 1915. Living near an airfield, he developed a fascination...
Kapitanleutnant Gunther Prien The first of Germany's great U-boat aces was born in Osterfeld on 16 January 1908. His naval career began when...
Taken from the Military intelligence service war department Washington, U.S Army Military History Institute 15th June 1943. Please see...