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A Supermarine Spitfire (front) and Hawker Hurricane (rear). The two fighter plane variants were the RAF's main weapons during the Battle of Britain. (Wikimedia Commons) In the summer of 1940, things looked very, very bad for the Allies of WWII. Poland and most of Eastern Europe were in Axis hands; France had just capitulated; and…
An Afrika Korps tank advances during the North African Campaign. (Pinterest) Some of the very first action in WWII took place in North Africa and the Middle East. By the 1930s, most European powers - predominantly the Allies - had economic interests in the region. The new fascist powers of the era wanted a piece…
French troops move on Fleury. (Wikimedia Commons) By late 1914, Verdun-sur-Meuse - a town on the Meuse river in Northeastern France - was surrounded on three sides by the German army. The lines of the Western Front bulged eastward around the town, and only La Route Sacrée, a medium-sized road, resupplied the French at Verdun.…
An M48 tank fires over the citadel's wall at VC positions. (MC.GR) By the end of 1967, Americans had been fighting the Vietnam War for nearly three years. Joined by allies from Australia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries, US forces under American General Westmoreland had had some success in battling the communist Viet Cong…
A "Female" Mark IV tank rolls into position at Cambrai. (Rare Historical Photos) By 1917, WWI had ground on for several unpleasant years. With casualties mounting on both sides and little change in battle lines from month-to-month, both the Allies (England, France and Russia) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans) sought new…
Eisenhower talks with 101s Airborne paratroopers prior to their jump into France. (Wikimedia Commons) 1943 was a turning point in WWII. Axis (German, Italian and Japanese) forces had been pushed out of North Africa, Allied forces were marching their way into mainland Italy and the Soviet Red Army had finally eliminated the German 6th Army…
An outdated Iraqi T-72 is used by Coalition members to clear a minefield. Much of Kuwait is flat, and Coalition tanks were able to snipe Iraqi tanks from many kilometres away. (Wikimedia Commons) In the spring and summer of 1990, relations between Kuwait and Iraq began to break down. Iraq had borrowed huge amounts of…
German 6th Army troops pinned down by Soviet sniper fire in Stalingrad. (source: Wikimedia Commons) In the summer of 1941 the German army kicked off Operation Barbarossa, the long-awaited invasion of the Soviet Union. Army units of the Wehrmacht (German Army) as well as troops from friendly Axis nations like Romania and Hungary made massive…
"Advance Courageously Under the Guidance of the Red Flag of Mao Zedong!": a poster encouraging Chinese citizens to support Mao and, presumably, to forget the horrors of the Great Leap Forward. (source: Flickr) In January of 1958, the People's Republic of China (PRC) began the Great Leap Forward, a series of economic, political and social…
Viet Minh fighters raise their flag over French positions at Dien Bien Phu. (source: Wikimedia Commons) On March 13th, 1954, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu began between the French Far East Expeditionary Forces and members of the communist Viet Minh (guerilla fighters). The battle was the climax of the First Indochina War (Indochina being…
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