Operations
Waffen-SS âdefendsâ Warsaw 1944
The Wiking Divisionâs Panther battalion moves up to the front during the defensive operations around Warsaw in August 1944. One of the Panther from the Wiking Division carrying infantrymen, possibly from 5. JĂ€ger-Division, during the defensive operations around Warsaw in August 1944. Tiger I of SS-Division âTotenkopfâ, stands ready in a forest assembly area to move up to the front…
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The Ardennes 1914 Part I
Joffreâs plan had been to concentrate superior forces in the French 4th Army sector and attack the weak German centre, break through and cut off the German right wing. The 3rd Army would protect the 4th Armyâs right flank. Upon learning that the French were advancing in its sector, the…
The Ardennes 1914 Part II
Strategy and Tactics The defeat of the French 4th Army by the German 4th Army in the Battle of the Frontiers spelled the failure of the French war plan. Combined with the Russian defeat at Tannenberg, the Entente strategy for simultaneous Russian and French attacks against Germany had also failed.…
Operation WOTAN Part I
The Panzer Thrust to Capture Moscow October-November 1941 JAMES LUCAS Introduction By the Autumn of 1940, the nations of Europeâs western seaboard had been defeated by Germany, leaving only the British Isles unconquered and defiant, although weak. Knowing that Britain posed no real threat Hitler decided to wage war against…
Operation WOTAN Part II
Kleist Moves North On 3 October, Kesselring ordered Kleistâs Panzer Group 1 to advance on a broad front, â⊠left flank on Kursk and the right on Gubkin ⊠to drive north-eastwards to gain touch with Guderian at Yelets.â Once he was in position on Guderianâs right Kleist was next…
Operation Compass I
Stroke and Counter-Stroke On the surface, Mussoliniâs Italy was firmly in the ascendant in the Middle East by the second half of 1940. In the Horn of Africa, the conquest of British Somaliland by the Duke of Aostaâs forces presented a potential threat to British sea traffic accessing the southern…
Operation Compass II
In the event, Hobart did not get to see the fruits of his labour in action. In July 1939 Gordon-Finlayson was replaced as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief by Lieutenant-General Henry Maitland Wilson, who had attended the same course as Hobart at the Staff College at Camberley in 1920. Initially their relationship…