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The Tide Turns: Guadalcanal November 1942
The Price of Victory The Battle of Guadalcanal is one of three Allied victories in the winter of 1942 that marked the turning of the tide in World War II, with the military initiative shifting from the Axis powers to the Allies: El Alamein, which turned the tide in...
El Alamein — The End of the Beginning
The second battle of El Alamein was fought from October 23rd to November 11th, 1942, and marked the end of the Afrika Korps’ dominance in north Africa. Indeed, only 6 months later, on May 13th, 1943, the last remnants of the Axis forces in Africa surrendered....
A Bridge Way Too Far
The 101st Airborne descends on Eindhoven Operation Market Garden September 17 – 25, 1944 In warfare, as in life, there is a fine line between risky and reckless. With the 20-20 vision afforded by history, I think we can say that Operation Market Garden fell toward the...
Battle of Britain Day
Heinkel He 111 bombers cross the Straight of Dover September 15th 1940 September 15th is remembered as Battle of Britain Day, commemorating the great aerial battle fought over southern England in 1940. The Objective On May 10th, 1940, Hitler unleased his armies...
The Few
On August 20th 1940, as the Battle of Britain raged in the skies above southern England, Churchill gave his speech praising the RAF’s fight against Hitler’s Luftwaffe, which included the now famous expression, ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by...
The War That Shouldn’t Have Started: How a Murder Turned Into a World War
The flame that lit World War I The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of AustriaWorld War I began over a hundred years ago this month. It is one of history’s great tragedies, because it had no clear and definitive reason, no clear justification for killing 20...
