World War II
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-07-30 | Author:Jon E. Lewis [Lewis, Jon E.]

BATTLE OF MIDWAY: ONE MAN’S DIARY, 4 JUNE 1942 Robert J Casey, war correspondent The naval struggle between Japan and the USA for the Pacific waves culminated at Midway in ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-06-05 | Author:David L. Robbins [Robbins, David L.]

The machine gun fell silent. Good. She got the bastard. One minute. Zaitsev glanced at his watch. Another machine gun came alive, aiming not at the loudspeaker but far to ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:James Hayward

5 Trench Myths The principal trench and battlefield myths examined in this chapter are those of the Crucified Canadian in 1915, and the German corpse conversion plant, which first gained ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-14 | Author:Virginia Nicholson [Nicholson, Virginia]

If you really wanted a dress, and you didn’t have the coupons … well, I used to think, you know, when the war’s finished I’m going to buy material and ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-18 | Author:Wolfgang Fischer [Fischer, Wolfgang]

I./JG 2’s likely opponents in the action of 25 May were the American 364th Fighter Group, who lost six of their P-38 Lightnings on that date. But the moment the ...
( Category: Aviation March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Sven Hassel [Hassel, Sven]

Far away in the distance a battery of artillery burst into action, as if in response to our song. We followed the blazing trails of the rockets, doubtless heading for ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-07-11 | Author:Gerald Astor [Astor, Gerald]

11 WE WERE THERE TO BE KILLED When the attack of the 28th Division crumbled, the first outfit hurled into the breach came from the 12th Infantry Regiment, part of ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Max Hastings [Hastings, Max]

The Torch landings in Vichy French Algeria and Morocco on 8 November 1942 represented the first big combined operation against the Germans by the US and British armies. Churchill and ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-25 | Author:Frank E. Vandiver [Vandiver, Frank E.]

Sixth Army commander and newly created field marshal Friedrich Paulus, shortly after surrendering at Stalingrad, January 31, 1943. 508 Victory came at a crucial time for Russian morale; it soared ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-12-25 | Author:George Weller

March 1 The bush near us has taken an awful beating in the past weeks—looks as though the whole Japanese army has been hunting us. Had a good night’s sleep ...
( Category: Nuclear March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-18 | Author:Harry Yeide

First Army, meanwhile, was compressing the pocket as it plowed north toward the British and Canadians. The 3d Armored Division hooked through Mayenne and then east and north after the ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:Joseph Balkoski [Balkoski, Joseph]

The 116th Infantry at Aachen, October 1–23, 1944. The column pressed on, past several massive slag heaps and abandoned coal mines that were common to this industrial region of Germany. ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Band of Brothers [Brothers, Band of]

7 HEALING WOUNDS AND SCRUBBED MISSIONS * ALDBOURNE July 13-Septemberl6,1944 "It's the only time I ever saw the Army do anything right," Gordon Carson said. "They put us on those ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:John R. Bruning

Curtis LeMay (far right) led the 4th Bomb Wing during the famous double strike mission to Regensburg and Schweinfurt. LeMay’s combat experience in the Eighth Air Force shaped his vision ...
( Category: Pictorials March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dennis Showalter

II ON APRIL 5, 1942, Hitler issued Directive 41, outlining the operational plan for the summer of 1942. Its focus would be in the south: a major drive toward the ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )