At this point in the war, Germany could not replace its losses.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The Nazis failed spectacularly in the summer of 1944 for three main reasons - elaborated below.
The Soviet army’s Operation Bagration offensive in June 1944 destroyed their greatest nemesis Nazi Germany’s Army Group Center and drove hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops and thousands of tanks from east of Minsk into the Third Reich itself.
It was, arguably, the greatest disaster for Germany in World War II, ironically kicking off three years to the day after Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, and resulting in more than 400,000 casualties inflicted on the Reich’s already badly-depleted armed forces.
Taiho s sinking, but the largest and most significant was its weight.
Six torpedoes from the U.S. Navy submarine USS
Albacore headed toward the Japanese aircraft
Taiho as she launched her planes on the morning of June 19, 1944 during the fighting on the Philippine Sea the largest carrier battle in history and the last major Japanese carrier operation.
“White bubbles were seen on the surface,” Cmdr. Shioyama Sakuichi later wrote. “Torpedo wakes! The loudspeakers on the bridged blared a command and some of the crew felt cold.”
One torpedo struck the ship, sending up a column of water on the starboard side in front of the bridge. One pilot flying near the carrier dived onto another torpedo, destroying it. The other four torpedoes missed.
Adolf Hitler believed in
Vorsehung (providence). The German leader felt that if anything was going to happen to him, such as assassination, there was nothing he could do about it. He had been selected by fate to achieve something great; he would not die, either by accident or assassination, until he had fulfilled that God-given mission.Time and time again in the past, providence, not planning, had taken care of him. In 1933, for instance, just before he became master of the Third Reich, he was involved in a terrible car crash with a truck. He emerged from the wreckage stating that he could not die yet his mission had not yet been achieved.
Civil War History: How Stonewall Jackson Met His End
Antiseptic techniques were not yet in practice, and contaminated instruments and non-sterile conditions resulted in many wound infections.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Friendly fire was the direct cause of Jackson s death; an erroneous medical diagnosis helped. However, given what we know now about medicine, most historians agree that it is unlikely that the doctors could have done much to help him.
Following his greatest victory, at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863, Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson was scouting ahead of the lines with members of his staff when tragedy struck. In the pitch blackness of the early-spring evening, Jackson and his men were mistaken for Union cavalry and fired upon by their own side. Jackson sustained a severe wound to his upper left arm, necessitating amputation. Upon hearing the news, victorious General Robert E. Lee remarked, “He has lost his left arm, bu