The two armies that faced each other across the beaches in the early hours of 6 June 1944 were vastly different in almost every way. One was very...
The clamp down on Jews in Poland began almost as soon as the first shots of WWII were fired. Following the brief conflict, occupying German...
With huge apologies to www.pegasusarchive.org , Also it's long but what could I have left out ? [IMG] Lieutenant Richard Andrew...
Code-named Operation Escape 200, it was better known as The Great Escape. Allied captives, predominantly Royal Air Force officers, planned to...
After more than 60 years of silence, World War II's most enduring and horrible secret is being nudged into the light of day. One by one the...
Defense against amphibious attack at sea remained a Kriegsmarine responsibility and the navy had both deep-water mines and coastal mines for this...
The assault by the 8th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, on Sword Beach was somewhat similar to the US 4th Infantry Division at Utah, landing along...
Soon after the intensified murder raids on London began the increased fury of the A.A. gun barrage gave much satisfaction to the millions...
"When Barbarossa is launched, declared Hitler, the whole world will hold its breath!", and indeed the forces massed along the Soviet frontier from...
While the Japanese navy was planning its attack on Pearl Harbour the Royal Navy prepared to launch a very similar operation. On the night of...
In October 1939, accepting the fact that the conquest of Poland, however impressive, would not prompt Great Britain and France to withdraw from...
All through the 1930s, the United States had struggled to free itself from the Depression. Despite the suffering and hardship of war, the country...
The campaign which opened on I February 1917 was fought with unparalleled ferocity. Three days later the United States broke off diplomatic...
Many nations have contributed to the development of the submarine but Germany seemed predestined to make more of its potential than any other...
In quality our airmen easily excel the Nazis, and there is good reason to believe that our machines are far better than any that Germany has yet...
For obvious reasons the Germans do their best to keep their prisoners of war hidden behind a thick veil of secrecy, but from time to time...
Finland beat off a Soviet Invasion, but the Norwegians facing a better equipped. more formidable foe in the Germans could not hold out....
Wartime Britain was surprisingly cosmopolitan: French sailors, bush-hatted Australian soldiers and exuberant GI's were familiar figures on the...
Major General Sir Percy Hobart Percy Hobart joined the Royal Engineers in 1904 and then in 1906 transferred to the engineers in the Indian Army....
Just as Napoleon at Boulogne threatened an invasion of England 136 years ago, so today Hitler stands on that same shore, threatening,...