Between March 4 and 18, 1945 Kolberg (today Kołobrzeg in Poland) was under siege by troops of the Red Army ...
In the early morning of May 10, 1940, the Koninklijke Marine in Rotterdam joined the battle for the Maas bridges. ...
The battle of the Polish peninsula Westerplatte near the Free City of Danzig can be considered the very first battle ...
The Special Air Service Brigade, in short SAS, was established in the first half of 1941 in North-Africa by Lieutenant ...
HMAS Sydney was a Leander class light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Her keel was laid on the ...
As early as 1942, the Allies had been drafting plans for a possible invasion of the continent of Europe. After ...
Due to the limitations, imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, the number of warships to be constructed in Germany, the ...
After the German breakthrough in the direction of the English Channel, the situation in Belgium was so precarious, causing Lord ...
According to history, Operation Market Garden should have been the operation that was to put an end to World War ...
In 2019, TracesOfWar received the war diary of Sergeant Roy Tull. His daughter, Mrs. Barbara Kelly, provided us with the contents ...
Operation Barbarossa may well be one of the most intriguing events in military history In any case, the German invasion ...
Sunday, December 7, 1941, will be remembered by most people as the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. ...
Introduction Norrey-en-Bessin, 1944. Lieutenant George Gordon of the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade drove his Sherman tank at such a speed ...
Major Errol Stewart Gray was born April 6, 1920 in Springhill, Nova Scotia in Canada. He stood 5 feet 6, ...
Up until 1938, Germany had never reckoned with the possibility of entering into a conflict with Great Britain in which ...
