In the summer of 1944 the situation was desperate for Germany:the eastern front had been broken and the Red Army was advancing rapidly; to the west and south, after taking Italy, the rest of the allies were knocking at the door. Hitler must have thought that in desperate situations, desperate measur
Charles de Gaulle (born November 22, 1890 in Lille, in the North - died November 9, 1970 in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, in Haute-Marne) was a French general and statesman, who was, since his exile in London, the leader of the resistance to the German occupation of France during the Second World War (
In Germany, as in other countries, at that time, the system of ranking by military district was in force. Each military district was identified with a specific region of Germany. The Panzer Divisions (Panzer Divisions) of the German Army had priority in the recruitment of men, selecting, primarily,
These planes first used their onboard weapons, when they had them, and normal bombs called iron bombs (undirected fall). Most of this equipment was old. Dropping bombs at very high speeds presented real dangers:armed in three seconds, they could collide with each other, explode, or hit the plane tha