It all started on the night of August 12 to 13, 1961. Shortly after At midnight, the teletypes of the East German news agencies began broadcasting a communiqué from the member countries of the Warsaw Pact which accused the NATO powers. to sabotage the East German economy by inciting unstable element
He launched his massive attack in November 1958:in a note addressed to the United States, France and Great Britain, he accused the Western powers of fomenting disorder in Germany and of using Berlin to carry out subversive plots. against all socialist nations. He demanded that the occupation of Berl
In Port Darwin, contact was established on the morning of May 28 by special forces commandos, helicoptered to the opposing lines to feel the enemy. During the day, this vanguard was joined by the bulk of the 2nd Paratroopers. But it was not until the next day, before dawn, that a battalion of paratr
Disembark where and when you want, but with the minimum of damage, material and above all human... The instructions given by London to Admiral Sandy Woodward, supreme manager of the British expedition to the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) , were clear. But implementing them was not easy. For a month fr
Classic war? Vanguard War? Technological war or conventional war? Electronic warfare or psychological warfare? The violent conflict which pitted two modern nations against each other in the South Atlantic was, over the course of two and a half months of often dramatic adventures, decked out with all
In November 1948, General Markos, as Vafiadhis was now known, had to relinquish leadership of the guerrillas to Nikos Zakhariadis, a seasoned militant communist. A month or two later, Marshal Alexander Papagos, winner of the Albanian campaign of 1940-1941, took command of the Greek army. The partis
By declaring that the United States “must come to the assistance of free peoples who refused to allow themselves to be subjugated by armed minorities and to submit to external pressures”, the President was in effect committing the United States to a policy which would lead them beyond beyond their t
On September 27, King George II returned to Greece and failed to get Tsaldaris to expand his government by introducing liberal ministers. Government authority over Greeces northern provinces was crumbling, and sporadic fighting had once again brought the country to the brink of civil war. In August
The Varzika agreement marked the beginning of a period of turmoil in Greece rather than the end of a chapter of political strife. The struggle immediately focused on the form of government that the nation would adopt. When, on March 31, 1946, general elections were held, the Communists and related p
It now seems obvious that the main error of judgment committed by the leaders of the K.K.E. was to have misunderstood the reactions of foreign powers. They had little idea of the agreement between Churchill and Stalin and it is quite possible that they counted on the intervention of Moscow in thei
The Germans began to leave Greece in September 1944. The threat of a Communist coup to take over the country as soon as the Germans left was obvious to most who followed the events of Greece.In September, Papandreou met with the military leaders of the E.L.A.S. and E.D.E.S. at Caserta, near Naples;
The E.L.A.S. and E.D.E.S. collaborated for the first and last time in the brilliant Operation Gorgopotamos, in which 160 Greek partisans, under the leadership of British officers parachuted into Greece, blew up a viaduct over which passed the railway crossing Greece from north to south. The feat of
By the 1920s, a third political force had emerged:communism. The K.K.E, the acronym by which the Communist Party was known, never managed to secure mass support during the interwar period, but it was the best organized and most disciplined party. It was perhaps for this very reason that he was never
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,
The fire falling on the defensive perimeter increased in intensity when Cie. D, on the left flank of Cie. C, was attacked, and at 07:45 the landing area was covered with rocket, mortar and automatic weapon fire. The 7th of Cav. responded with full firepower, and the enemy suffered heavy casualties.
From 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Moore readjusted his device too tightly as he could. Defensive artillery and mortar fire was coordinated, and Moore selected a fraction sufficient for two helicopters in the landing zone to serve as an eventual last position. The 229th Pathfinders (composed of men who ha
Brown, the commander of Bde., flew over the scene of the fight , and Moore told him that he was dealing with about 600 North Vietnamese who would no doubt soon be reinforced. He asked for a company. supplement, a request which Brown had anticipated, also Co. B of 2nd Bn. from 7 of Cav. she stood rea
Second Lieutenant Walter J. Marm, Co. A, landed and quickly drove his Sn. in skirmishers in the direction of the place of combat. Almost immediately he took two prisoners and soon after reached the location of the Sn. reserve of the company. B. With her, Marm planned to come to the aid of the Sn. in
On the morning of November 14, Moore and his principal officers made a seemingly innocuous reconnaissance flight. In reality, they checked three possible landing zones and chose the largest, on which could land 8 to 10 aircraft at a time. From above, the terrain looked moderately open and was covere
On October 19, 1965, General Chu launched the Tau Nguyen campaign by attacking the Special Forces camp at Plei Me, about 30 km south of the provincial capital, Pleiku. General William Westmoreland, head of U.S. military assistance to Vietnam, ordered Major General H.W.O. Kinnard to send its 1st Div.
The Soviets had maintained relations with Afghanistan since the 1950s:they notably helped the power in place to introduce social reforms. Political movements upset the country until the putsch of the Peoples Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), with Marxist tendencies, on April 27, 1978. The Prim
Flemish Sergeant Remy Sritzen served in the Flemish SS Legion. He was a team leader in the 5th Anti-Tank Company. On New Years Eve 1944 his unit, under the SS Panzer Grenadier Division Das Reich, was deployed in the Zhytomyr area, facing the forces of Field Marshal Vatunins 1st Ukrainian Front. The
The Catholic Church was established after the action of the Church Fathers, who fought heresies and established the ecclesiastical doctrine of Christianity. Christianity established itself as an institution in the final centuries of the Roman Empire. As the Roman Empire crumbled into internal crise
Semyon Danilovich Nomokonov was one of the best Soviet snipers of World War II. But it didnt start out that way... Nomokonov was born in eastern Siberia in 1900. He was a native of the small Evenk tribe, which today numbers around 70-75,000 souls in Russia, China and Mongolia. Everyone in his fam