One of the more noticeable phenomena of WW2 was the number of conferences between the Allied Leaders. Without Facebook and Facetime they just had to meet physically; they did have scrambled telephone calls though, unbeknown [more…]
“For every foreign-born soldier who dies, no German mother weeps” – Gottlob Berger The Waffen SS was the military wing of the Nazi party, although it is important to note that membership of the NSDAP [more…]
There were a multitude of Crossbow V-Weapon sites throughout northern France and most were attacked from the air and later overrun by the advancing Allied armies. The light bombers of the Second Tactical Air Force [more…]
The Allies could finally claim air superiority over France and Belgium by 1943. It had been a hard-fought battle that started after the Battle of Britain in the Circus and Rhubarb sweeps over France, the [more…]
The Venona Project was launched by the US Army Signal Intelligence Service in February 1943. The Russians had sent thousands and thousands of coded and enciphered messages over commercial telegraph services. The US Army decided [more…]
As discussed in the previous article, the successful air attacks against the Watten bunker forced the German Army to find an alternative location for a V-2 missile launch site nearby. They had already taken possession [more…]
Following on from the bombing of Peenemunde in August 1943, the Allied bomber offensive continued to attack precision targets in France with heavy bombers. The “Crossbow” offensive lasted from June until September of 1944, much [more…]
The Lady be Good was a B-24 Liberator bomber, newly assigned to the 514th Bomb Squadron, based at Soluch Field in Libya, near Benghazi. The aircraft and its crew arrived at the Libyan base around [more…]
Part Six – On the Ground at Peenemünde, the Effectiveness of the Bombing and the Legacy The German rocket engineers had arrived at Peenemünde in 1936. Their remit was to circumvent the severe limitations imposed [more…]
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