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 ...
The Battle of Guadalcanal raged in the Pacific from August 7, 1942, to February 7, 1943. In the preceding months, ...
Many historians consider the Battle of Midway, fought from June 3 to 8, 1942 by Japanese and American aircraft carriers, ...
The Battle of the St. Lawrence was a lesser known yet critical chapter in the Second World War, where Canada ...
The battle of the Coral Sea, which took place from May 4-9 and was fought between the Imperial Japanese Navy ...
On the 12th of December 1942, after a long and adventurous voyage, the Dutch steamship [i]Ombilin[/i] of the Nederlandse Koninklijke ...
Baedeker travel guide Karl Baedeker started publishing travel guides in 1832. He was not the first one to do so, but ...
"We were not informed about production of heavy water in Vemork. We were not informed about the Germans wanting to ...
The German invasion of the Soviet Union had been a certainty for Adolf Hitler for a long time. Advancing to ...
The German invasion of the Soviet Union had been a certainty for Adolf Hitler for a long time. Advancing to ...
Introduction German cities suffered large scale bombing by the Allied Air Force during the Second World War. The big bombing raids ...
At the outbreak of World War II, RAF Bomber Command regularly carried out daylight operations. However it transpired quite ...
Seldom an unequal battle, like the one between the Dutch oil tanker Ondina escorted by the British Indian corvette HMIS ...
The island of Timor, situated about 700 kilometers (approx. 380 nm) northwest of the Australian city of Darwin, was ...
