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Operation Sea Lion: The Nazi Invasion of Britain that Never Happened Examining an invasion plan that, if executed correctly, could have changed the course of World War II and of world history.  Here's What You Need To Remember: Nazi warplanners knew that Operation Sea Lion was doomed unless Germany controlled the skies over the English Channel. Without doubt, the fall of France was an unmitigated disaster for the Allied cause. However, for all its failures in command, strategy, and tactics, it could have been much worse. During the first week of June 1940, a total of 335,000 British and Fr...

Julia Parsons holds a World War II-era photo of herself. (Courtesy Veterans Breakfast Club in Pittsburgh) 1 Mar 2021 A World War II code breaker who helped hunt down Nazi U-boats turns 100 on Tuesday and will be honored with a parade past her house in Pittsburgh. Julia Parsons, who served in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or Navy WAVES, said her work was aided enormously by the sheer arrogance of the German High Command in believing that the allies couldn't possibly break their vaunted "Enigma" code despite warnings from their own U-Boat commanders. She told Military.com ...

Kaushik Patowary Feb 15, 2021 0 comments The city of Saint Petersburg is one of the most beautiful cities in Russia and in eastern Europe, with a great ensemble of historic buildings, gilded palaces, and baroque bridges and churches. Founded by Peter the Great as a “window to Europe” Saint Petersburg’s has a very cosmopolitan character, unique among Russian cities, but behind all the gilt and glory lurks a darker past, going back by less than eighty years, when Hitler had the city bombed, besieged and starved during the Second World War. The siege of Leningrad (the city’s previous nam...

World War I in the Balkans: Who Were the "Gardeners of Salonika"? While their comrades manned the trenches of the Western Front, a force of one million Allied troops languished in the dreary Greek port of Salonika. Here's What You Need to Know: The Salonika campaign cost the Allies 165,800 combat fatalities. The Germans mocked it as their largest prisoner-of-war camp, and French Premier Georges Clemenceau was hardly less withering in his opinion of the Allied stronghold at Salonika, Greece. “What are they doing?” he demanded. “Digging! Then let them be known as ‘the gardeners of Salo...

How the Red Army Saved Leningrad in 1941 The Soviet Red Army blunted a German drive to capture the town of Tikhvin and seal the fate of Leningrad during Operation Barbarossa. Here's What You Need to Know: German forces in the north would never again be so close to totally cutting off the city. The men of Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb’s Heeresgruppe Nord (Army Group North) had little sleep during the night of June 21, 1941. Long before midnight, assault infantry and engineers had begun moving toward the border with the Soviet Union, the silence broken only by an occasional cough and...