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Awesome Footage: D-Day - Greatest Combined Operation in World's History

Awesome footage filmed in Normandy, France and Southern England in June, 1944. Title reads: "D-day - Greatest Combined Operation in World's History".  

Aerial shots of bombers over Northern France prior to the landings. They bomb coastline, "in softening of the German defences". Rockets...read more

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Surprising Tank & Weapon Wrecks in Normandy! 51 Pictures Found On Online War History Archives

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The Battle of Normandy was the beginning of the 'Great Crusade' in Northern Europe by the Western Allies. The air and seaborne landings in Northern France were the largest the world has ever seen, with meticulous planning for D-Day, yet marked by a surfeit of...read more

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Occupation of Holland - Sky-Blitz (1940)

This captured German war film with English commentary is a documentary on an action of the elite German paratroop unit, The Fallschirmjäger, during the occupation of Holland in May 1940. This dramatic, action filled film focuses on the capture and securing of one of the strategic objectives in...read more

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When a single Soviet KV-2 heavy tank, blocked the supply line of the entire German Army Group ‘North’ armored division in 1941

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In the summer of 1941, as the Nazis implemented their Blitzkrieg strategy in the early months of World War II, using fast tank and infantry attacks to cut off and surround unwieldy Soviet formations, some extraordinary feats took place....read more

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21 Images of Abandoned and Captured German Tanks in Stalingrad. A Selection of Impressive B/W Photographs, You Must See!!

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The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the largest and deadliest battles in World War II. It was a turning point in the war. The Sixth Army, under the command of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus went into battle with 675 Tanks of various models. ...read more

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Great Patriotic War in a battle heatmap and dynamic graphic timeline

The Eastern Front stretched for 1,400 kilometers, from the Arctic Circle in the North, to Crimea in the South, and flashpoints changed all through the war as the two adversaries probed each other and fought over the same increasingly devastated territory. This heatmap shows the major battles of...read more

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La Batalla de las Ardenas

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En Diciembre de 1944 el Ejército estadounidense se encontraba desmoralizado tras los desastres cosechados en la "Operación Market-Garden" de Holanda y en la Batalla del Bosque de Hürtgen, y falto de suministros debido a que las líneas de suministro se habían estirado demasiado,...read more

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NUTS! The most famous response to a demand for surrender in World War II

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The Ardennes offensive, with more than a million men involved, became the greatest battle of the war in Western Europe. American troops, taken by surprise, found themselves fighting two panzer armies. Belgian civilians fled, justifiably afraid of German revenge. Panic...read more

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Christmas 1944

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The frigid night air cut through the Lieutenant’s army issue coat as the stopped in the knee deep snow to survey the perimeter. A heavy snow continued to fall on this Christmas Eve 1944, but it was not a silent night. The flashes of artillery lit the sky and generated a rumble like distant...read more

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AH 12 - La Batalla del Lago Balatón, el final de las Waffen SS

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El 13 de febrero de 1945, tras 50 días de encarnizados combates, Budapest caía en manos soviéticas. La conquista de la capital húngara supuso un duro revés para Hitler, pues ello conllevaba también la pérdida de los últimos recursos petrolíferos en poder del Reich, vitales para el esfuerzo de...read more

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