I may be wrong. It was several years ago when he died, and he told me the story a year before then, so I may have mixed up facts with personal...
My grandpa was a medic with one of the engineer platoons that landed on D-Day. He landed on Utah and saw the Americans screw everything up!
nope. platoons of Canadian engineers (i'm not sure which) landed on every beach to clear the German anti-tank and anti-personnel obstacles (mines,...
As we all know, the British started planning D-Day the week they were forced off the Continent at Dunkirk. On June 6th, 1944, they landed on five...
The Germans renamed Herbstnebel Wacht am Rhein two days before it occured. And Churchill wasn't the only one that called it the battle of the...
I'm planning a series of novels (I love to write) on World War Two, and I need some reliable books to refer to when I am stuck. If anyone has any,...
I thought that, even for troops preparing to face with one and a half divisions, all the supplies could be carried by the miniscule Kriegsmarine.
True, but there were only around four through six battles in which momentum changed. Like I said before, I almost always go with momentum and...
oops! :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: First of all, the book wasn't actually written by the students. It was compiled...
Besides, an offensive can be any of four types: 1) From two points, close or far, like Orel and Belgorod, on a single point, like Kursk...
Decisiveness and momentum are what I usually go by. These battles were all very momentous. At Stalingrad, the Russians began to repel the...
Kursk was a tank battle. Read this: The book I took this quote from is an official book on the history of World War Two, compiled by two...
Nah, i wasn't i'm still learning the basics of airborne invasions. I thought it was just drop, land, fight. Didn't know it was this complex.
I was and wasn't (:???:) looking at percentages. :eek: In terms of percentage, yeah, no larger battles than in the Pacific. But in terms of...
I was referring to Iwo Jima. It was one hell of a bloodbath, and if you ask me, it was minor compared to what came to the Tenth Army on Okinawa....
There's two things here. One, the British garrison of Iceland and the American garrison of Greenland combined was about the strength of a division...
I never said they made it the whole way. They only got to Greenland, and most of the invasions were airborne.
What were the three biggest tank battles, besides Kursk, which would OBVIOUSLY be the biggest.
anywhere in the war. Asia, Europe, Africa or Pacific. :grin:
I think there were four major battles of World War Two. I know some of the biggest battles of the war were Stalingrad, El Alamein and Midway. If I...
