My eulogy for the planes and pilots we lost at the Wings Over Dallas warbirds show November 2022.
Tag: Elizabeth Akin
Before Overlord – Turning Points in World War II: A Brief Summary
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy halted the seemingly unstoppable progress of Japanese expansion across the Pacific at the Battle of Midway. On the other side of the world, German and Russian forces were engaged in the titanic struggles of Stalingrad and Kursk. Both campaigns have been called turning points. Evaluate the accuracy of that statement. Was there an earlier shift in momentum on either front?”
The Invasion of France: Covid Edition
Of all the campaigns of the Second World War, none produced the shock and utter disbelief created the German defeat of France in the early summer of 1940.
Michael Burleigh comments on Heinrich Himmler’s character while thoroughly abusing a thesaurus
Just put it down, man. Put the thesarus down and slowly… back… away.
John Toland comments on playful pups in combat zones
Leave it to Man’s Best Friend to turn a combat zone into play time.
Armed Arctos: Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front 1943-1945
By Todd Hubert April 2016 At 0445 hours on the morning of September 1, 1939, German divisions supported by tactical aircraft and mobile armor poured
Assorted Musings from an Unknown Historian 