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Operation Market-Garden 1944 (3)
Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitions Operation Market-Garden. Part …
Rommels krig
Erwin Rommel, med tilnavnet "Ørkenreven", er en av andre verdenskrig mest kjente feltmarskalker. Hans krig i Nord-Afrika pågikk i over to år der han både vant og tapte store slag. …
Bruneval Raid
In the darkest days of World War II, the British planned a daring airborne operation to capture the secret of the new German radar. Lead by Major John Frost, a company of …
Women Close to Hitler
Caen 1944
One of the key objectives of British forces on D-Day was the capture of the strategically vital city of Caen. General Montgomery saw Caen as the key to Normandy and the springboard …
D-Day 1944 (4)
Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, was the greatest sea-borne military operation in history. At the heart of the invasion and key to its success were the landings …
Assault on Germany
The author of A Luftwaffe General gives a detailed history of the Allied forces' brutal Operation Clipper during World War II. The Anglo-American battle for the Geilenkirchen …
Operation Market-Garden 1944 (3)
Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitions Operation Market-Garden. Part …
D-Day 1944 (3)
At 0016hrs on 6 June 1944 a Horsa glider ground to a halt a mere 60 yards from the Orne Canal bridge at B nouville in Normandy. A small group of British paratroopers burst from it …
Assault Crossing
The assault crossing of the River Seine by the British 43rd (Wessex) Division in August 1944 remains one of the most important operations of the closing stages of the Second World …
Battle Zone Normandy: Juno Beach
Canadian troops landing on Juno Beach on 6 June 1944 were fulfilling the promise made by their government in 1939, 'to take up arms against an aggressor state whose policy …