The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and code named Operation Watchtower, originally applying only to an operation to take the island of Tulagi, by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against… Read more »
Ever since Cain and Abel, there have been siblings who have behaved in totally opposite ways, but surely none as dramatically as Hermann and Albert Günther Goering. Hermann Goering was Hitler’s second-in-command and an architect of the “final solution”. His brother Albert , born 09-03-1895 in the Berlin suburb of Friedenau. He was the fifth child of… Read more »
Otto Dietrich was the Third Reich’s Press Chief, and Hitler’s confidante. He was born in August 1887, and died at the age of 55 in 1952, after serving time in Landberg Prison following the Nuremberg trials, at which he was convicted of “crimes against humanity.” After his time as a soldier in WWI, he was awarded the Iron… Read more »
We know a great deal about what transpired at Oradour sur Glane because despite the thorugnness of the SS killing operation, there were a few survivors. There was only one school child among the survivors. The lone child who managed to survive was Roger Godfrin . He was a refugee from Lorraine. Roger was born… Read more »
The Falaise Pocket or Battle of the Falaise Pocket (12–21 August 1944) was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy. A pocket was formed around Falaise, in which the German Army Group B , with the 7th Army under Generaloberst Friedrich Dollmann, and the Fifth Panzer Army, under General of Panzer Troops Heinrich Eberbach formerly Panzergruppe West were encircled by the Western Allies. The battle is also referred… Read more »