Operations
Operation Totalize II
Map showing the fighting that took place for the Grimbosq Bridgehead. The Grimbosq Bridgehead On 6 August, 176th Brigade, 59th Division, crossed the Orne near Bas de Brieux (near Grimbosq). The 271.ID fought fiercely, but the English were able establish a bridgehead. Kampfgruppe WĂĽnsche counter-attacked on 7 and 8 August with Panther tanks and Tigers from 2nd Company. However, the…
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The Legacy of Unternehmen Barbarossa II
Barbarossa’s failure to deliver the knockout blow and the subsequent failure to take Moscow suggest that December 1941 was the moment Germany lost the war. At best, it could expect a long war of attrition in a struggle against the combined might of the United States, the British Empire, and…
Operation A-GO Part I
Air Battle Of The Philippine Sea by John Hamilton (Naval History and Heritage Command) With Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s death in April 1943 a successor to the command of Combined Fleet had to be chosen, and the man picked was Admiral Mineichi Koga. While not of the same caliber as Yamamoto,…
Operation A-GO Part II
The submarine phase of Operation A-GO had completely miscarried. Not only were seventeen submarines lost, but no submarines would now be available for quick action against the U.S. fleet off the Marianas. The destruction of the NA line and other losses in the area also tended to lead Japanese officers…
ESCAPE TO THEÂ CARPATHIANS
Army Group South Ukraine, 19 August-26 September 1944 The summer offensive against Army Groups Center and North Ukraine drove an enormous blunt wedge into the center of the Eastern Front. The flanks, reaching out to the Arctic Ocean and the Black Sea, still held up, but they were stretched taut…
THE FRONT REBUILT
Army Group South, 5-29 October 1944 RETREAT TO THE MURESUL—CRISIS IN HUNGARY Hungarian Second Army advanced again on 6 September, but not as fast as it had the day before. Sixth Army, which had taken command of Eighth Army’s right flank corps, reported that the Russians were in the Oitoz…
The Seven Days I
George B. McClellan and Robert E. Lee, respective commanders of the Union and Confederate armies in the Seven Days Near the end of the fighting on June 1 General McClellan appeared on the battlefield. His lieutenants had matters well in hand and little required his attention. “Sumner and his generals…