On June 6, 1944 the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division (IDF) landed on Juno Beach and the British 3rd Infantry Division landed on Sword Beach. The mission of these two divisions was, immediately after securing a bridgehead, the advance and capture of the city of Kan and the bridges on the river Orn.
For years he feared that the French would not have forgiven him for the devastation he caused in the war. Seventy-five years after the Normandy Landings, 97-year-old Tom Rice today repeated the parachute jump he had made on June 6, 1944, to the applause of the crowd. Nice flight, nice jump, every
The fighting around the city of Caen in Normandy began immediately after the landing of the Allied forces. British and Canadians attempted to capture the city immediately but failed. However, the Germans also failed to expel the opponents from the territory that the latter had occupied. Despite t
Tragic, misguided, unjust and ungrateful is the attitude of todays Russia, like the Soviet Union before it, which insists that it won World War II alone and that the participation of the other Allies was negligible. Continuing the same propaganda work for internal consumption, but also to feed sa
The Battle of Mishmar HaMek was one of the fiercest conflicts of the First Arab-Israeli War, known as Israels War of Independence. At the beginning of April 1948, about 1,000 Arabs of the Arab Liberation Army under Fawzi al-Kawji launched an attack on the Jewish kibbutz there. The kibbutz was bui
Artillery in that period was in all, except the Austrian, armies the poor relative of the proud weapons of infantry and cavalry. In this were mainly the scions of bourgeois families, leaving the nobles to staff the other arms. Even the inclusion of men in the artillery was problematic, since those w
Gaius Julius Caesar was involved early in the public life of Rome. Belonging to the camp of Marius he risked being killed by Sulla in the first great civil war. Caesar left Rome and participated in two campaigns in Lesvos and Cilicia. As soon as he was informed of Sullas death (78 BC), Caesar re
The battleship Yamato was, along with its brother Musashi, the most powerful battleship ever to sail the seas of Earth. In 1945 the strategic situation for Japan was grim. Defeats followed defeats and the Allies advanced. The once mighty Imperial Japanese Navy was a shadow of its former self. The
Attilas army could also be described as the Hunnic imperial army. Contrary to the army he inherited from his forefathers, Attila included in his war machine a large number of vassal warriors, mainly Germans. They fought under the command of their own leaders, following their customary way of fightin
Since the time of Constantine the Great, the Roman Army has undergone a radical reorganization, to such an extent that it hardly resembles the old army of the years of the Augustan Empire. Then the power source of the army was the foot legionaries, armed with heavy javelins (pila), large shield, bre
Amon Leopold Gett was born in Austria in 1908. Son of a Roman Catholic, well-to-do family of publishing house owners, he left school at the age of 17, joining extreme, anti-Semitic groups. In 1930 he joined the Austrian branch of the National Socialist party and then joined the SS. For a time he
Alexander Smorel is a special case in history. He was German, he was orthodox and he was a member of the White Rose organization, an organization of young German fighters against the Hitlerite cesspool. He was born in Russia in 1917. His father was a German living in Russia and his mother was Russia
The village of Mill is located in North Brabant near the Belgian border, not far from the banks of the Maas. In 1940 it was part of the Peel – Raam defense site. In the area of the village the Dutch had built 47 artillery pieces and deployed two infantry battalions. The machine guns were built
The Mongols-Tatars, as early as the 13th century had conquered Russia and had made most of the tax princes vassals. In 1370, Khan Mamai took over the leadership of the Golden Horde, one of the successor states of Genghis Khans empire. At the same time the various Russian principalities were at wa
During the winter of 58 to 57 BC. alarming information began to reach Caesars staff about the activities of the Belgae. The ancient Belgians inhabited the areas of todays northern France, Belgium, Luxembourg and part of todays Netherlands. Caesar considered them as the most powerful opponents. Ca
Hitler was receiving proposals to occupy Gibraltar already before the collapse of France in 1940. The occupation of Gibraltar was combined with the occupation of Suez and the exclusion of the British from the Mediterranean. If this plan had been followed the course of the war would probably have bee
In 1480, Mohammed II the Conqueror seemed to be absolute sovereign in the Eastern Mediterranean. He had crushed the Venetians and conquered Chalkida. At that time, the Order of the Knights of Agios Ioannis was based in the Dodecanese. The Order had formed in the Holy Land and had written its own his
Oscar Dirlewanger head of the eponymous Waffen SS brigade, also known as the 36th SS Volunteer Division, was a real bastard whose connections with Himmler landed him instead of prison, at least in command of a combat unit … of cleansing. Dirlewanger fought in World War I and was one of the first
Although Spain remained neutral in World War II, Franco, and because of the help he had received from Hitler during the Spanish Civil War, allowed the recruitment of volunteers on behalf of the German army with the prospect of fighting, strictly , on the Eastern Front against the Bolsheviks. Hitl
The Panzerkampfwagen I (armored battle vehicle I) known as the Panzer I (Pz I) was the first battle tank of the reborn German army. It entered service in 1934, essentially being a test vehicle for the development of more powerful tanks. It had a weight of 5.4 (Ausf A) – 6 tons (Ausf B), maximum a
If you have seen the movie Kingdom of Heaven by Ridley Scott will surely remember the scene in which Saladin tries to storm the Crack of the Moabites. The Crusader Castle, also known as the Kerak , was together with the Crac de los Caballeros, one of the largest Christian fortresses in the Holy Lan
Jean-Baptiste-Jules Bernadotte, Prince of PonteCorvo Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, born January 26, 1763 in Pau, Béarn (France), died March 8, 1844 in Stockholm (Sweden), had a singular destiny, passing, in the space of twenty-eight years, from a modest rank of French non-commissioned officer,
Christianity was mired in conflicts since its birth. This was a natural thing because the sophistication of a best institution, best idea, best creation or system can happen only after conflicts. The thought arising in the heart of man in relation to any subject, is not necessarily so superior that
Dahomey , kingdom in West Africa , used in the southern region in the 18th and 19th centuries Benin thrived . Tradition has it that in the early 17th century three brothers competed for the kingdom Allada , which like neighboring Whydah (now) Ouidah ), was in Slave Trade got r