ww2 Eastern Front

Last Flight of the Luftwaffe – Courland Evacuation VE-Day 1945

Courland Evacuation On VE-Day 1945 and beyond, the German Air Force launched a desperate rescue mission to evacuate German wounded[…]

Submachine Gun Tactics A look at the organization and tactics used by the Soviet Red Army’s SMG units during WWII.[…]

The Battle Of Kursk Summer 1943. After two years of war, Hitler was no closer to victory in the East,[…]

Courland Pocket The Courland Pocket was formed in late 1944 as Army Group North retreated from East in the face[…]

Stalingrad Firestorm As Paulus’s 6th Army crosses the Don river, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen’s Luftflotte 4 launches a devastating air[…]

The Storyline Before Paulus could strike towards Stalingrad, he had to clear the Bend of the Great Don River of[…]

Victory At Stalingrad 2 February, 1943: The Battle of Stalingrad is over. 4 minutes of assessment and statistics. Credit[…]

Fall Blau The last gasp of victory for the Axis in WW2, Fall Blau is a disaster for German Blitzkrieg[…]

The Battle of Kursk The tidal wave of the German advance had lost momentum when it broke against the outskirts[…]

First Interrogation of Field Marshal Paulus The pictures of the first interrogation of Field Marshal Paulus are famous. But few[…]