On 16 December 1944, the Germans launched a final large-scale offensive against the rapidly advancing Allied troops on the Western ...
Within two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt ordered a counterattack on Japanese soil itself. It ...
Between June 3 and 7, 1942, Japanese and American naval forces engaged in a sea and air battle near the ...
In August 1939 Hitler anticipated that the Allies would not come to Poland's aid if he could make them believe ...
Introduction RAF Bomber Command used The Royal Air Force (RAF) base RAF Downham Market during World War Two. Bomber Command executed ...
Prologue How an unknown German artillery battery could shell Omaha Beach until three days after D-Day. On D-Day,the American Rangers, specially trained ...
In May, 1940 the Luftwaffe took over the captured Dutch airfields. They were soon enlarged in the framework of the war ...
Belgium strongly figured in her defenses on the protective power of the Albert Canal. When the German troops marched into ...
Supply problems The allied invasion on the European mainland brought several problems with it. The most important was the problem of ...
"It is beyond dispute that defence merely postpones the decision, even in the best-case scenario. Victory – in other words: ...
Which university in Europe has its own airport? The Technical University in Darmstadt has one, partly due to the presence ...
In this article a picture has been painted of the Belgian troops that continued the battle on the side of ...
During he Second World War the troops of the Waffen-SS were feared because of their ruthlessness, cruelty and fanatical battle-readiness. ...
North-Africa was a battlefront opened by Adolf Hitler in 1941 after the Italians had suffered a massive defeat in the ...
On Friday the 10th of May, 1940, the Dutch neutrality was ravaged when the German armies attacked our country. The ...
