Erwin Rommel

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel & The Battle of Kasserine Pass

In the winter of 1942-1943, the Allies had every reason to believe that they were on the verge of total victory in North Africa. Read more

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Erwin Rommel Frustrated By French Foreign Legion At Bir Hacheim

When Brig. Gen. Joseph-Pierre Koenig, commander of the 1st Free French Brigade, surveyed the area he had just been ordered to defend, he must have been mightily discouraged. Read more

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Field Marshals Erwin Rommel & Gerd von Rundstedt

The Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe was inevitable as the tide of World War II turned against Germany. Read more

Erwin Rommel

Battle of Mortain: The Big Red One’s Square-Off with German Panzers

At the start of the Battle of Mortain, Field Marshal Gunther Von Kluge was in an optimistic mood. Read more

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Attack on The Merville gun battery during D-Day

Just boys facing danger, please God make them men; If they live through the danger, make them boys once again.      —Sergeant Ginger Woodcock, June 5, 1944

On the morning of June 6, 1944, the greatest amphibious fleet in history bore in toward the coast of Normandy. Read more

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Erwin Rommel’s Victory at Gazala: Becoming the ‘Desert Fox’

On April 15, 1942, Generaloberst (Colonel General) Erwin Rommel summoned his subordinate commanders of the Panzerarmee Afrika to a conference to outline his plans for the coming offensive against the British Eighth Army. Read more

Erwin Rommel

Hans Baur: Hitler’s Pilot Flew Führer Across Europe and History

Adolf Hitler’s wartime Armaments Minister Albert Speer was right when he termed the Führer’s pilot from 1932 to 1945, Lt. Read more

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The Battle of France: Furor Teutonicus & Gallic Débâcle

The year 1939 was one of massive military parades across Europe. On April 20, the largest ever was held in Berlin to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday, complete with the paratroopers, wheeled artillery, tanks, half-tracks for motorized infantry, and overhead Luftwaffe fly-bys that would mark the coming campaigns and revolutionize warfare forever. Read more

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Operation Torch: The Allied Invasion of North Africa

The Allied decision to invade North Africa, codenamed Operation Torch, was reached in the summer of 1942 after lengthy—and sometimes bitter—arguments between interested parties. Read more

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Rare Photos of Adolf Hitler’s Atlantic Wall

It was built by forced laborers and designed to defend over 2,000 miles of coastline from the Allies. Read more

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The Military Misadventures of Benito Mussolini

After assuming dictatorial powers in Italy, Benito Mussolini remained a popular figure with the Italian people – for a time. Read more

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From Sahara’s Heart: Unearthing A Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk

The ghosts of World War II continue to surface in remote corners of the globe.

Decades after the war in North Africa ended, another reminder of the early and uncertain days in that theater came to the attention of the media and excited historians with a snapshot of a pilot’s ordeal in the unforgiving Egyptian desert where he was forced to land a crippled fighter plane. Read more