The battles, campaigns, units and operations of the Second World War. From the invasion of Poland in 1939 to the surrender of Japan in 1945. European theatre, Pacific theatre, Eastern Front, North Africa. The war, in full.
The Red Army raised their flag. But the story of how they got there was invented the same night. On April 30, 1945, the Nazi flag was no longer flying over the Reichstag. No, it was now the Soviet flag’s…
September 15, 1944. The first wave of U.S. Marines landed in their LVTs, the Landing Vehicle, Tracked. Their final destination was the island of Peleliu. A large portion of the Marines would never leave the island alive. It was all…
Today is May 5, 2026. You’re probably wondering what this could possibly have to do with World War II, unless you’re Dutch. May 8, 1945 marked the official end of World War II in Europe. Sometimes better known as VE…
The Malmedy Massacre, sometimes also known as the Baugnez Massacre, was an incident during World War II in which 84 American prisoners of war were killed by Kampfgruppe Peiper after being captured. This event was later classified as a war…
The Big Red One wasn’t the only unit during Operation Overlord and D-Day whose regiment was overshadowed by the so-called Band of Brothers. Easy Company, the Screaming Eagles, cast a long shadow over Operation Overlord. The 526th Armored Infantry Battalion…
Dresden was the scene of one of the most horrific bombings carried out during the Second World War. A massive firestorm broke out, killing approximately 25,000 people. Almost all of them were civilians. Most military and industrial targets were missed…
Everyone is familiar with the iconic battle that took place in Stalingrad during World War II. The German 6th Army. Field Marshal Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus, who owed his ultimate highest military rank solely to what was expected of him:…
Nowhere was the nearly complete failure of D-Day more evident than at Omaha Beach, particularly in the central sector codenamed Easy Red. It was there that the 1st Infantry Division, better known as the Big Red One, was tasked with carrying…
After the horrors of Stalingrad, the collapse of the Eastern Front, Operation Bagration, and the aftermath of the Allied landings on the Western Front during D-Day, Hitler was ready to make his final desperate move: the Volkssturm. The Volkssturm was…
