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Germany Army in the East, Late 1942-Mid 1943 Part III
Another ground for suspicion of Lucy is that not one of Roessler’s alleged sources surfaced after the war ended. If they were really members of OKW or OKH, both defined by the victors as criminal organisations, their careers, incomes and prospects had been terminated by the Wehrmacht’s defeat and disbandment, and they faced the prospect of at least a denazification…
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Finland Leaves WWII
Lapin sota – the Campaign against Germany 1944: Soviet offensive. It came as a great relief to the Germans when they realized that the Finns would do their best to get German troops out of the country as peacefully and as quickly as possible by 15 September 1944, which was…
End of Barbarossa
In August 1941 Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, commander of Army Group Centre, was bitterly disappointed at the loss of the Moscow operation. Time remained for just one more major offensive, and none were optimistic that Hitler’s drive to seize the Ukraine and isolate Leningrad would be sufficient to force…
The Liberation of Prague and Czechoslovakia
Soviet and Czech Armour 1945 The Nazi puppet state in Slovakia sent small ground and air units to fight against the Soviet Union. Formerly a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, after World War I Slovakia shared the twists and turns of the history of the Czech state. But during World…
The Kuban Air Battles I
I. Pokryshkin and his squadron mate Dmitry B. Glinka (brother of Boris Glinka, also ace and Hero of the Soviet Union) “Achtung! Achtung! Pokryshkin is in the air!” these words made German pilots feel panic. Nobody wanted to meet him in one-to-one fighting. I. Pokryshkin became famous during the battles…
The Kuban Air Battles II
P-39D-2 “White 37” of Guards Snr.Lt. V.I. Fadeev, CO of the 3-rd Squadron, 16 GIAP. Kuban’, April-May, 1943 Major air campaign that marked the shift from German to Soviet air superiority on the Eastern Front during World War II. During April and May 1943, as the Germans struggled for their…
U-977
U-977 moored at Mar del Plata naval base Soon to become somewhat famous (or infamous) and the cause of wild speculation in the tabloids, the U-977, commanded by a new skipper, Heinz Schäffer, age twenty-four, sailed from Kristiansand on May 2 to patrol in the English Channel. Commissioned on March…