Eastern Front 1944
The Eastern Front from winter 1943-44 until late summer 1944. Ending the siege of Leningrad and Operation Bagration, the destruction of the German Army Group Center. During the winter of […]
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The Eastern Front from winter 1943-44 until late summer 1944. Ending the siege of Leningrad and Operation Bagration, the destruction of the German Army Group Center. During the winter of […]
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Losses and casualties during World War II. Military personnel and civilian losses, aircraft, warships and merchant ships of the combatants from 1939 to 1945. Military and civilian losses of the
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The campaign against Poland in September 1939 (Part I). Deployment, the German attack and the advance on Warsaw until 9 September. The German attack on Poland began on September 1,
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Operation Merkur (Mercury), the ‘Battle of Crete’. German Plan of Attack and assault troops, deployed forces, intelligence, the fighting and losses on Crete. The same time as on April 21,
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Second World War, overview of the course from 1943 to 1945 with the defeat of the Axis powers by the Allies (Part III). Here to Part II: Second World War
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The Battle of Britain in 1940-1941. Operation Sea lion, strengths of the German Navy and Luftwaffe vs RAF, the air battle and the ‘Blitz’. The Battle of Britain Operation Sealion
Operation Weser Crossing (Unternehmen Weserübung), the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940. The six-month hiatus known as the ‘Phony War’ lasted from September 1939 until April 1940,
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From August 1941 until the end of the Siege of Tobruk in December 1941 (Part III). Australians withdrawn and replaced by Polish troops and ending the siege. Here to Part
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The map of the control of territories in the European theater of war from 1942-45. Above is the strategic map of the European theater of war for the war game
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German Orders of Battle of 11 May 1942 and the Planning of the Summer Offensive (Operation Blue). Here to the previous part: German Orders of Battle April 1942 and Soviet
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Part III of ‘Why did Hitler declare war on the US?’ Back to PART II: The ‘undeclared war’ of the USA against Germany The road to the ‘real’ World War.
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The Siege of Tobruk, from April to December 1941 (Part II). Rommel’s attack on the defensive perimeter, trench warfare and the circumstances get worse at Tobruk. Here to part I
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Could had Operation Barbarossa – Hitler’s attack on Soviet Russia – a different course and why was the invasion carried out in June 1941 ? A great number of people
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The siege of Tobruk from April to December 1941. Tobruk is a tiny but significant harbor on the coastline of Cyrenaica. Before WW2 its inhabitants figures about 4,000 citizens, residing
Artic convoys to Russia in 1941 and 1942. First convoys, the destruction of PQ-17 and losses of PQ-18, new tactics with JW-51 and the interruption between spring and winter 1943.
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