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Three New Book Reviews to Kick Off the New Year

Submitted by SteveMerc
on Sun, 02/16/2020 - 17:42

Hi all. Obviously it's been awhile since I last posted in June. What can I say, work and a young family has been keeping me very busy. As has my progress on my second book examining Germany's defeat in the Second World War. Nevertheless, I have been able to do some reading of late, and have three books I think you will really enjoy. Each offers a unique look at often overlooked aspects of the Second World War and Vietnam War. If you are looking for something new, then I very much recommend you pick up any or all of these three books.

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The U.S. 741st and 743rd Tank Battalions At Omaha Beach

Submitted by SteveMerc
on Wed, 06/05/2019 - 15:43

With the 75th Anniversary of the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France upon us (D-Day) I thought it would be appropriate to highlight one of the more important contributions to the D-Day effort. That being the armor tasked with supporting the assaulting infantry at Omaha beach. During the abortive Dieppe raid of August 1942 it had become obvious that significant armored support was essential if any Allied invasion force had hopes of getting past the German beach defenses. There, only 29 Churchill tanks landed.

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Sixth Army’s Flanks Outside Stalingrad: The Red Army Plans It’s Counterstrike

Submitted by SteveMerc
on Mon, 12/17/2018 - 20:17

If one is seeking to understand how and why the Second World War ended as it did it's instructive to take a look at Soviet planning during the fall of 1942. It represented everything German planning was not. First, unlike the chaos at OKH during the fall of 1942 (the third full year of war for the German high command and a time when you would have thought a competent leadership team would have been nailed down and in place), the Soviet Union had a stable military and political high command.

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Zhukov
Vasilevsky
Chuikov
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Sixth Army's Flanks Outside Stalingrad: The Romanian Third Army and the "Bridgeheads"

Submitted by SteveMerc
on Mon, 11/19/2018 - 20:50

In a previous series of articles I examined the state of play on the German Sixth Army's flanks outside of Stalingrad during the Axis assault on the city. In this follow-up article I would like to take a look at the Romanian Third Army's positions opposite the "bridgeheads" that would prove so crucial in the eventual success of the Soviet Southwestern Front's portion of the Red Army's November 19, 1942 counter-offensive. First, let's examine the formation of these bridgeheads over the Don River and why they were so important.

Between July 6th and October 24, 1942 the Red Army launched

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July and August of 1942: Why Operation Blue Began to Falter

Submitted by SteveMerc
on Mon, 04/09/2018 - 18:38

Traditional accounts of Germany's 1942 summer offensive on the Eastern Front (codenamed Operation Blue) describe the tyranny of time, space, and distance all working together to undermine German efforts. Couple that with the Red Army's wise decision to pull back, draw the Germans in, and only then stand and fight, using its superior size and strength to beat the Axis forces, and you have a conventional wisdom that proved surprisingly enduring.

As it turns out a huge chunk of this conventional wisdom has already been proven to be more myth than reality.

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