Battle Spotlight #2: The Battle of the Bulge
Written on January 8, 2012 – Updated on June 17, 2012 By 1944, Germany was attacked by both sides, and many were about to give up hope, but not Hitler. Hitler had announced his decision of the...
View ArticleBattle Spotlight 4: Battle of Manchuria
On August 8 as decided at the Tehran and Yalta conferences Russia would assist the USA in the pacific theater by invading the Manchuria part of the Japanese Empire. During the attacks, Russia was...
View ArticleBattle Spotlight #3: Operation Citadel
On the morning of July 5, Army Group Center surged across to try to close the Kursk salient by trapping it with a two prong assault. The resulting battle would be the largest tank battle in history,...
View ArticleBattle Spotlight #6: Battle of Stalingrad
On the day of August 24, 1942, two armies clashed in one of the largest and bloodiest battles in WWII. The German 6th Army attacked two Soviet Armies at the city of Stalingrad. Six monthes of bloody...
View ArticleBattle Spotlight #7: Battle of Berlin and VE Day
On this day in 1945, the entire world celebrated as Alfred Jodl, the secretary of Hitler, signed the unconditional surrender treaty, ending the War on the Western Front. The Soviet Red Army suffered...
View ArticleBattle Spotlight #10: D-Day
Exactly 68 years ago, the largest amphibious invasion took place on June 6th, 1944. 150,000 American, British, and Canadian troops landed on five different beaches in Northern France. This is...
View ArticleBattle Spotlight #11: Battle of Falaise Gap
It was August, and the Allies from the Normandy beachheads have managed to secure beachheads and pushed inland, securing the towns of St. Lo, Caen, and Cherbourg. Another invasion force from the south...
View ArticleBattle Spotlight #12: Operation Barbarossa and the Battle for Moscow
On June 22, 1941, the largest invasion in history. would commence in Eastern Europe. Over 3.9million German troops, 600,000 motor vehicles, and 700,000 horses. At that time, the unbeatable German war...
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