Blogs about: World War Ii 1939 1945
Operation Uranus: The Noose is Set
Joel wrote 10 hours ago: “Fortress Stalingrad” had a grandiose sound to it, but the title was deceiving. German … more →
Operation Uranus: Turnabout in Stalingrad
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Joel wrote 4 days ago: Case Blue, launched in late June of 1942, got off to a smashing start for both the Soviets and the G … more →
British Launch Crusade: Salvation of Tobruk the Goal
Joel wrote 6 days ago: Field Marshal Erwin Rommel knew what full-scale assaults looked like, and this didn’t look lik … more →
Operation Judgement Gives Japan Pearl of Wisdom
Joel wrote 1 week ago: The Battle of Taranto is one of the Second World War’s more obscure engagements. Maybe that … more →
Mount Hood Erupts!!
Joel wrote 1 week ago: The mighty battleship HMS Hood was felled in 1941 in spectacular (and catastrophic) fashion. Engage … more →
Finland Calls Soviet Bluff
Joel wrote 2 weeks ago: For nearly a month, direct negotiations had persisted. Back-and-forth communications?…more th … more →
French Fleet Burned Badly by Torch
Joel wrote 2 weeks ago: As General Mark Clark was preparing to depart from his secret rendevous in North Africa, Vichy comma … more →
The Great Gate of Kiev
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Joel wrote 2 weeks ago: When Operation Citadel was abandoned by Adolf Hitler in July of 1943, it left in its wake the scatte … more →
British Begin Westward Push in North Africa
Joel wrote 2 weeks ago: The last two months had been particularly unkind to the Afrika Korps. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel … more →
British Capture Shark in the Mediterranean
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Joel wrote 3 weeks ago: We rarely visit the movie theater. Occasionally, we’ll go and watch a movie, but even “ … more →
Benito Mussolini: Allied MVP
Joel wrote 3 weeks ago: Italian dictator Benito Mussolini clearly had a flair for ineptitude. He may have made the trains r … more →
Japan Wins Big and Loses Bigger at Santa Cruz
Joel wrote 4 weeks ago: For the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Battle of Santa Cruz was one of those battles that was looked ba … more →
St. Lo Laid Low by Yukio
Joel wrote 4 weeks ago: The Battle of Leyte Gulf needs no serious introduction to regular readers of Today’s History L … more →
Clark Takes Secret Trip, Returns with Extra Baggage
Joel wrote 1 month ago: It was October 21, 1942. In Virginia, the mid-afternoon sun shone down on an invasion fleet. To da … more →
A Divine Wind Stirs the Balacat Trees
Joel wrote 1 month ago: Today, East Airfield is just a field. Every year, a crop of sugar cane is grown there. When the ti … more →
U-47 Threads the Needle and Fells the Mighty Oak
Joel wrote 1 month ago: As October 13, 1939 ended, the HMS Royal Oak was sitting in the relative quiet of Scapa Flow. Locat … more →
Corporal Andrusko: 1 Bullet, 3 Wounds, 1 Miracle
Joel wrote 1 month ago: Vicissitudes. I love that word. The way it rolls off the tongue…it’s smooth. Vicissitu … more →
Andy Haldane: Loved and Lost on Peleliu's Hill 140
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Joel wrote 1 month ago: As I’ve been reading “To the Far Side of Hell“, I’m reminded again that hist … more →
Absolute War Comes to Vitebsk
Joel wrote 1 month ago: The early days of Operation Barbarossa were heady ones for the German Wehrmacht, and hapless ones fo … more →
