'The struggle for Stalingrad is nearing a successful conclusion. Today or tomorrow we may expect to receive important OKW announcements about the...
Andrei Yeremenko (Eremenko) first saw action as a cavalry NCO in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I. He joined the Red Army in 1918. In 1939...
Georgy Zhukov, who would become one of the finest leaders of the Soviet Army, had modest beginnings. Born near Moscow of peasant stock like many...
The Enigma was a highly sophisticated mechanical encryption device that had a keyboard and looked superficially like a typewriter. The German...
To enable the forces already on the Normandy coast on D-Day to be reinforced and kept supplied with utmost speed it was necessary that two...
Germans retreating through Northern Italy, late in 1944, made increasingly desperate attempts to delay the Allied advance with mines and...
Born at Gross-Kauen in Silesia on 10 March 1892, Karl Arndt began his military career as a private in 1908. He fought in the 1914-18 war in...
Calais fell to the 1st Canadian army after a combined air and artillery attack on October 1st 1944. Over 7,000 prisoners were taken as the German...
"Except possibly for a few last shots, the Battle of London is over," declared Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P. Chairman of the War Cabinet Committee on...
When Britain’s fortunes were at its lowest ebb in 1940, when the Army had returned almost weapon less from Dunkirk and the full fury of Hitler’s...
There ws at least one German "who' could vouch for the accuracy of the guns of the cruiser H.M.S. Arethusa during the bombardment of Normandy....
Once menacing but now quite harmless, was this big German gun captured at Tripoli, which was brought to London. Soldiers are cleaning the war...
After a fast sea chase off the Anzio beach-head at midnight on Mar 24th 1944, the British destroyer, H.M.S. Grenville rammed and sank a German...
One of the Wehrmacht’s heavies was this huge siege mortar captured by the Russians; it was believed to have been either a 240-mm: or 305-mm piece....
Valentine Scorpion III, 22nd Dragoons, 79th Armoured Division, Suffolk, January 1944 Events moved so fast once the mine-clearing flail tank was...
The Victoria Cross was awarded, on Feb 23, 1944, to Lieut. B. C. G. Place, D.S.C., R.N. and to Lieut. D. Cameron, R.N.R., for their supreme...
During my first few weeks in the army we were given various aptitude tests and it was discovered that I had an affinity for reading Morse code for...
After a 12-hour chase in the Arctic gloom the 26,000 ton German Battle Ship Scharnhorst, enticed from her lair in Altenfjord, Northern Norway, by...
Rocket propelled shells and bombs had featured prominently in 1943, known as the “secret weapon” propaganda. It had even been reported that 15-ton...
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) The Lord Lyell (57781), Scots Guards (Kirriemuir, Angus) From the 22nd April, 1943, to 27th April, 1943, Captain...