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Vor 6 Tagen · On May 18, 1944, Allied troops captured Monte Cassino in Italy, celebrated for its historic hilltop abbey, after four months of bitter fighting. The soldiers of the French Expeditionary Corps ...
Vor einem Tag · Coordinated with the Wehrmacht's ground attack in the Ardennes, the Luftwaffe sought to cripple as many Allied aircraft as possible. Unfortunately for the Germans, the operation, often referred to ...
Vor einem Tag · Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War. It was the largest and costliest land offensive in human history ...
- 22 June 1941 – 7 January 1942, (6 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
- Axis captured approximately 600,000 square kilometres of Soviet territory but failed to reach the A-A line
- Soviet Victory, Axis operational failure
Vor 4 Tagen · The Joint Chiefs of Staff originated in World War II, when U.S. military leaders recognized the need for an overall command to coordinate the efforts of the various services. A unified high-command structure was adopted in 1942 and maintained on an informal basis throughout the war.
Vor 2 Tagen · As the Soviet winter counteroffensive of 1941–1942 culminated in March, the Soviet high command began planning for the summer campaign. Stalin desired a general offensive, but was dissuaded by Chief of the General Staff Boris Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the General Staff Aleksandr Vasilevsky, and Western Main Direction commander ...
Vor einem Tag · The Paraguayan War, also known as the War of the Triple Alliance, was a South American war that lasted from 1864 to 1870. It was fought between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Argentina, the Empire of Brazil, and Uruguay. It was the deadliest and bloodiest inter-state war in Latin American history. [6] Paraguay sustained large casualties ...
Vor 2 Tagen · ‘Shackled to a corpse’ is a quote widely attributed to General Erich von Ludendorff, which allegedly describes the alliance between Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
