ww2dbaseAxis Invasion of Crimea ww2dbaseBeginning on 18 Oct, General Erik Hansen of the German LIV Corps, with 22nd, 46th, and 73rd Infantry Divisions, attacked the Soviet 51st Army at Ishun. Although the Soviets had greater numbers and local air superiority, Hansen's troops slowly advanced...
18 May 1944 The deportation of Crimean Tatars began. 19 Jul 1944 Soviet NKVD troops allegedly murdered entire inhabitants of a number of villages on the Arabit Spit in eastern Krym (Crimea), Russia; the main ethnicity of those villages was Crimean Tatar. 20 Oct 1944 The Soviet Union ordered...
Battle of the Bulge: Directed by Ken Annakin. With Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews. A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.
with Battle of Stalingrad, we can narrow things down a great deal. These days, IL-2: Battle of Stalingrad is one of many individual ‘games’ beneath the umbrella of the IL-2: Great Battles series. Each individual game comes with its own map and...
He has a keen interest in military history and is widely read. In particular, he enjoys visiting battlefields and has dragged his long-suffering wife over many of them. (Though still happily married she now refuses to follow him anymore.) He has led tours to the Crimea, Dublin, Italy and...
Waterloo represents the peak of proficiency of the army that Wellington fought in. This why for the rest of his life he fought to keep it that way with only minor changes creeping in. The British would not fight another war against an “Industrial power” until the Crimea in 1854 so the...
In his Kremlin defense of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listing the battles where Russian blood had been shed on Crimean soil, spoke of an older deeper bond. Crimea, said Putin, “is the location of ancient Khersones, where Prince Vladimir was baptized...