He was sent to fight a holding action, defied that and had initial success. This lead to Hitler sending him extra resources to fight an offensive...
It has become very fashionable to say America should not have used atomic bombs in world war 2 but we need to remember how many lives it saved.
Indeed. They where expecting 2.5 million casualties so there is a good chance I may not have been here.
It was not a bad strategy long term. With major landing in the Balkans rather than France Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary could have...
So Hitler comes to power 9 months earlier if im right in thinking. That would mean war should begin in about January 1939 however it is unlikely...
One of my grandad was in a reserved occupation in the ship yards for most of the war but got called up in 1944. He was in the process of being...
[ATTACH] Japanese plan of attack. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Hokushin-ron-Map.png
Some very interesting plans found here - Japanese strategic planning for mainland Asia (1905 Under these circumstances, Japanese operational...
Four options presented here in this scenario by Kurgan are with my evaluation underneath - 1) Still go through (eventually) with an invasion of...
If the UK is neutral the UK may sell the Japanese oil as may the Dutch in that situation.
Ill provide the proof as soon as you answer that you seriously did not know that oil was and is run along the transiberian railway?
So you actually believe they are worse strategic risks taking Gibraltar than attacking the USSR?
It's not easy to discuss competently what the Red Army had in the Far East during the first two years of the war. Most of the old soviet sources...
Last galup poll on the subject asking the direct question should America go to war was against! Go on post it. Its on the same site.
Forces planned for the capture of Gibraltar January 1941. Stab/1. Gebirgsdivision: Lanz Hubert, Gen. Maj. (RDA: 01.11.1940) Ia: Degen Hans,...
Mainland France already had this agreement in the shape of the article in the armistice. Hence why Germans forces where moved back and forth...
What's clear is that the support for the AK as it existed historically was inadequate. Romel was only able to do what he did do because he...
So why did Hitler postpone the invasion of the USSR on March 30th and move this mass South? 337,096 men 875 tanks 990 aircraft And the Invasion...
You don't even know that German troops were moved through Occupied France constantly from June 1941 onwards? And you really have no knowledge of...
