On December 7, 1941 over 350 Japanese aircraft launched from six aircraft carriers hammered US military installations across Oahu, Hawaii. The focal point for their attack was the elements of the US Pacific Fleet then at anchor at the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. This attack killed over 2,400 Americans and sank or damaged eight battleships (with two total losses), three cruisers, three destroyers, some auxiliary ships, and destroyed 183 aircraft.
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Steve Mercatante
on: Dec 7 2011 - 12:30am
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Steve Mercatante
on: Dec 4 2011 - 8:05pm
Tomorrow is the 70th Anniversary of the Soviet counterattack before Moscow that put the final nail in Barbarossa' s coffin. Though the grossly overextended German army in the Soviet Union had long since been ground down to a fraction of its strength from six months prior; this counterstroke would do tremendous damage to a Wehrmacht badly positioned for defending against a strategic level counter offensive.
Review Type: Army Group Center, Barbarossa, Battle for Moscow, Battles, Bock, Eastern Theater of Operations, Guderian, Halder, Kalinin Front, Moscow, OKH, Panzer, Second Panzer Army, Third Panzer Army, WWII, Zhukov
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Steve Mercatante
on: Dec 3 2011 - 5:57pm
A large unexploded WWII era bomb dropped by the RAF (Royal Air Force) has been discovered in the mud along the Rhine River near Koblenz, Germany. This discovery, along with two smaller bombs found nearby, is forcing the temporary evacuation of 45,000 people while the ordnance is defused and removed. As many now know Germany took a fearful pounding during WWII.
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Steve Mercatante
on: Nov 28 2011 - 9:01pm
On November 22, 2011 Josef Stalin's sole surviving child, Lana (formerly Svetlana) Peters (her married name following her 1967 defection from the Soviet Union and marriage to her third husband - an American) died of cancer. Born on February 28, 1926 she was 85 years old.
Review Type: Soviet Union, Stalin, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Nov 27 2011 - 2:39am
The house where Anne Frank famously hid from the Nazi's during their Second World War occupation of the Netherlands is being opened to the public for a single day in December, 2011. Though able to escape Nazi capture for two years ultimately Anne Frank and her family were found - resulting in Anne Frank's death in a concentration camp in 1945. Anne Frank was one of over one hundred thousand Jews from the Netherlands killed by Germany during WWII.
Review Type: genocide, Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Netherlands, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Nov 22 2011 - 2:57pm
The remains of six former soldiers from the Red Army are to be reinterred from their current burial location in Finland. Currently located in South Karelia the remains were discovered outside the city of Lappeenranta and will be moved to an official cemetary for Soviet prisoners of war who died during the 1941-1944 war fought between the Soviet Union and Germany and its Axis allies - including Finland.
Review Type: Finland, Karelia, Mannerheim, POW, Red Army, Soviet Union, Stalin, Winter War, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Nov 18 2011 - 5:30pm
Russian soldiers of the 90th Special Search Battalion of the Western Military District, along with staff from the Museum of the Battle for Leningrad, have recovered a KV-1 tank from the Neva River near Leningrad. Thankfully no crew remains were found, thus meaning they likely escaped, and the tank itself is in relatively good condition. It is expected the tank will be able to be fully restored and be used in parades as a living historical artifact.
The KV-1 was the primary heavy tank in the
Review Type: AFV, Army Group North, Barbarossa, Eastern European Theater of Operations, KV-1, Leningrad, Neva, Red Army, Tank, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Nov 15 2011 - 5:43pm
A slew of new pictures of the often forgotten dark side of the Dunkirk rescue operation, taken by a German soldier after the battle, provide chilling evidence of the scope of the disaster suffered by Allied forces following the German invasion of Western Europe in May, 1940.
Within ten day of the German invasion, tanks from the 2nd Panzer Division had crossed the Somme River and reached the English Channel at Abbeville, completing the encirclement of approximately 1.7 million British, French,
Review Type: 1940, Battle for France, BEF, Britain, Dunkirk, Hitler, Panzer, Royal Army, Western European Theater of Operations, WWII
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Steve Mercatante
on: Nov 11 2011 - 2:46pm
On May 13, 1938 an Act of Congress established Armistice Day as a national holiday, following up on President Woodrow Wilson's November 11, 1919 proclamation of the first Armistice Day honoring American veterans who fought in WWI. Though WWI did not formally end until the Treay of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919; in the US, Armistice Day, with the armistice marking the temporary end of combat on November 11, 1918, is widely regarded as the end of the First World War.
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Steve Mercatante
on: Nov 11 2011 - 2:09pm
Today the United States Marine Corps celebrates 236 years of protecting US interests abroad.
Review Type: Piracy, Revolutionary War, US Marine Corps, WWII
