While the Germans occupied the Netherlands during the World War II on May 10th 1940, Allied air forces carried out a number of operations over Rotterdam and the surrounding region, with 650 civilian victims and half the city destroyed These included bombing strategic installations, leaflet dropping, and during the last week of the war, the dropping of emergency food supplies. In one incident,… Read more »
The 101st Airborne Division (“Screaming Eagles”) is a modular light infantry division of the United states Army trained for air assault operations. During World War II it was renowned for its role in Operation Overlord (the D-Day landings and airborne landings on June 6, 1944, in Normandy, France), Operation Market Garden under General Maxwell Taylor the liberation of the Netherlands and, perhaps most famously, its action during the Battle of the… Read more »
The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign and in Germany as the Poland Campaign (Polenfeldzug) or Fall Weiss (“Case White”), was a joint invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, the Free City of Danzig, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact , while the Soviet… Read more »
It is not clear whether General Masaharu Homma ordered the atrocities that occurred during the march, but it is clear that his lack of administrative expertise and his inability to adequately delegate authority and control his men helped to enable the atrocities.[10] After American-Filipino forces surrendered the Bataan Peninsula, Homma turned the logistics of handling the… Read more »
The D-Day rehearsal, codenamed Exercise Tiger, was a disaster on a grand scale with the loss of life greater than the actual invasion of Normandy just months later. But the true story was to remain a secret for decades to come. The first practice assault took place on the morning of 27 April and was marred… Read more »