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Reading from The Guns At last Light. The War in Western Europe 1944- 1945, by Rick Atkinson.

by Daniel Russ on December 12, 2018

This book is brilliant as it paints pictures we rarely imagine. He talks about immensely altered landscape of Europe in the last year of the conflict. Five years of warfare had left British cities as “Bedraggled, unkempt, and neglected as rotten teeth.” People talked about ‘Before the war” as if it were a […]

The Hussites.

by Daniel Russ on December 8, 2018

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The Hussite movement began in the Bohemia, western Czechoslovakia – spread quickly at the hands or shall we say at the mouth of Jan Hus. It spread from Moravia to Hungary and no further. It was a blip in history if not an interesting one. The reason why this movement was important […]

The Heinkel 111 Zwilling. As If Dr. Seuss Created A German Aircraft.

December 4, 2018

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Well we all know that WWII provided budgets and motivation for innovation. The fascinating thing is that when you are an armchair military historian, every few weeks you think, “well OK we know about everything you could know about what happened in World War II.” And just then you see something you haven’t ever […]

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Another Tuskegee Airman Makes His Final Flight.

November 29, 2018

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Was Ahmose I Moses? An Opinion By One Of Our Readers, “Iggy”.

November 26, 2018

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The 18th dynasty Pharaoh’s reign coincide directly with the reign of Solomon. The Exodus occurred exactly 480 (479 literal BC years when adjusted for inclusive counting) years before the temple was built by Solomon. I think Kamose was the pharoah of the Exodus. (Google the Kamose stele/s and the English interpretations). And I think AHMOSE […]

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Grant Is Promoted

November 21, 2018

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March 8th, Tuesday 1864, was a cold and windy day in Washington D.C. Entering the lobby of the Willard Hotel, a short, round shouldered middle-aged man, shabbily appointed, taciturn and otherwise unimpressive stood holding the hand of his 13 year old son. He stood 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed no more […]

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“Not A Step Back.” Stalin’s Order No. 227.

November 15, 2018

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The enemy throws new forces to the front without regard to heavy losses and penetrates deep into the Soviet Union, seizing new regions, destroying our cities and villages, and violating, plundering and killing the Soviet population. Combat goes on in region Voronezh, near Don, in the south, and at the gates of the Northern […]

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Furher Directive 25, Hitler’s Orders To Take Yugoslavia.

November 11, 2018

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German Artillery Pounds Yugoslav Positions The military revolt in Yugoslavia has changed the political position in the Balkans. Yugoslavia, even if it makes initial professions of loyalty, must be regarded as an enemy and beaten down as quickly as possible. 2. It is my intention to break […]

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Happy Veterans Day

November 10, 2018

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“When Barbarossa begins, the world will hold its breath,” Adolph Hitler.

November 5, 2018

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The world did hold its breath, and with the largest, best equipped, best trained, most motivated army in the world, it seemed like it might just work out. Oddly, Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart, the Archbishop of Paris remarked during a sermon that Hitler’ invasion. Of Russia “is a noble undertaking in defense of European culture”. […]

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1944 Was A Very Bad Year For Germany In Russia.

October 31, 2018

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By the summer of 1943, German forces in Eastern Russia were headed West in full retreat. Quite a feat when you consider that a retreat of an army sized unit had to be approved by Hitler, something he almost never allowed. In the West, US and UK forces were pushing into the heart of […]

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W’s Brilliant Comments On Senator John McCain

October 27, 2018

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“He loved freedom with a passion of a man who knew its absence. He respected the dignity inherent in every life, a dignity that does not stop at borders and cannot be erased by dictators,” Bush said. “Perhaps above all, John detested the abuse of power. He could not abide bigots and swaggering […]

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Rudolph Hess And His Very Bad Decision.

October 22, 2018

Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1894, on April 26th, Rudolf Hess did not actually reside in Germany until he was a teenager. He grew up the son of a successful businessman in the export industry. It was something his father wanted him to take up but he had no interest whatsoever in that. When […]

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The Origins Of Hitler’s Folly.

October 17, 2018

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Wehrmach Soldiers Examine A Destroyed T-34. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk gave the Germans purview over Poland, Belorussia, the Ukraine and the Baltic. It was the result of the end of World War I and it was a cornerstone of Hitler’s belief that there stood a Jewish Bolshevik conspiracy. So his trajectory through Russia, he hoped, would […]

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The Convair XC 99

October 13, 2018

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This is the only XC 99 plane ever built. Convair wanted to turn the B 36 Peacemaker into a massive cargo plane. This piston engine propeller driven craft first flew on November 24th 1949. It was cancelled because so many new plane were on the way with better fuel efficiency and greater payloads […]

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EFW N-20 “Arbalete” – Switzerland Tries To Build Its Own Fighter

October 8, 2018

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The EFW N-20 “Arbalete” (“Crossbow”) was part of a long campaign to provide Switzerland with and indigenous jet fighter bomber. At the end of the day a wooden glider was the test aircraft until a prototype could be built. The idea was to put everything important on a central triangular configuration amid ship, and […]

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Help Me Identify This

October 3, 2018

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It is the Fouga CM.88 Gemeaux From Wikipedia To meet a requirement to use as an engined testbed for Turbomeca turbojets, Fouga combined two CM.8 fuselages. It used the port and starboard outerwings with a new wing centre section to join the two fuselages. The V-tails fitted to each fuselage were […]

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The Invasion Of Russia Was In Hitler’s Plans From The Start

September 28, 2018

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For a man who prided himself on his historical knowledge, Hitler learned little from the past, quipped Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War, a scholarly look at World War II. Historians question everything, and they pride themselves for popping balloons and shattering myths. Among the most discussed topics is why Hitler […]

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Can You Identify This Plane?

September 23, 2018

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Grant And His Demons

September 19, 2018

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As a citizen, Grant failed at perhaps every single endeavor. He failed as a leather worker, as a salesman, and he fell prey to the vagaries of alcoholism. Unkempt and unimpressive in civilian clothing, we often dismissed as a man of the streets. Yet, given command and responsibilities, he was a bit like Churchill- […]

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