In February 1940 the German navy decided to attack British fishing vessels in the North Sea in the area of Dodger Bank. The mission codenamed Operation Wikinger (Viking) was assigned to the 1st Destroyer Flotilla. The flotilla consisted of the destroyers Z1 Leberecht Maass, Z3 Max Schultz, Z4 R
We often tend to forget that North America was not always Anglo- Saxon. It was even, with India, the first French colonial empire, from Quebec to New Orleans. From the beginning of the 16th century, courageous and intrepid explorers surveyed the new world, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the s
As with many other European countries, Italy was not a unified state until the mid-19th century. Until then it was a mosaic of kingdoms and republics that, as we go back in time, was made up of more and more loose tiles, something especially serious not because of the separation itself but because
Tully progressed without incident along the rump and located Sn. lost whose men welcomed their saviors with understandable emotion. They retreated slowly and in good order to the landing area, carrying off the dead and wounded and losing only one wounded to a sniper. Throughout the following night,