ww2dbaseThe daring members of the "Davao Dozen," through their epic escape, changed the course of the war. Strategic military operations were altered in the Pacific Theater, while on the home front, news of the Bataan Death March and other atrocities awoke America from a little-known mid-war...
like an SS man who boasted that he could smell Jews, proved decisive: She learned that the Nazis were retreating from the area near Freiburg and abandoning the Siegfried Line. She later discovered an imminent ambush by a remnant of the Nazi Wehrmacht, which awaited the advancing Allies...
In physical dimensions it was the largest operational tank ever built – the next operational tank to even approach its weight would be the German Tiger II tank of WW2. Ten were eventually built and entered service, remaining in use up until WW2, when they were activated during the French mo...
The Big Red One: Directed by Samuel Fuller. With Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco. A hardened sergeant and the four core members of his infantry unit try to survive World War II as they move from battle to battle throughout Europ
Our main square is called Piazza Maggiore after the end of WW2 but was called Piazza Vittorio Emanuele at the time of the pic. The members of the tank battalion weren’t lodged in the nearby buildings. The edifice on the back of the tanks is called “commune”, and was the place where...
” It declared Mulder distinguished himself “by outstanding performance of duty as a radio operator with a communications team of an infantry regiment engaged in rolling back the Siegfried line after a penetration and in encircling a strongly defended enemy city. The courage, zealous determination ...
Germany, the Allies only had enough supplies to carry out one large assault in late 1944, and General Eisenhower had to chose between Montgomery's planned assault into the Netherlands or continue General Omar Bradley's assault into Germany at the Siegfried Line (with General Patton leading the ...
(empty) & German soldiers had not been too jolly as they changed a flat tyre near a spot somewher about the Siegfried Line. Petrol had been filled to all machines at Belgium and a Jerrycan full added to the filled trophies, on their way to pause at Hotel Pitter where most of the ...
The game begins a couple of days before D-day, with airborne and reconnaissance operations in Normandy. Then you will land on the beaches of Utah and Omaha, take part in the assault of the Merville Battery, the Battle of Brest, the Siegfried Line breakthrough, the Ardennes operation and th...
The Hürtgenwald was a forested area beyond the Siegfried Line, or Westwall, in Germany close to the city of Aachen. It was fought over in November 1944 as American troops fought their way through the area. Ernest Hemingway, who reported on the battle, called it “Passchendaele with tree-...