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British SOE Agents who trained at Camp X. (JSTOR Daily) On this day in 1941, Camp X began operations in Ontario, Canada. Officially named Special Training School No. 103, the camp was one of the primary locations for training British and Allied covert operators in the arts of deception, sabotage, and intelligence gathering during WWII.…
Marine Raiders in 1944 in the Solomon Islands. (USMC) On this day in 1942, Carlson's Patrol - an operation by the US Marine Corps 2nd Raider Battalion - ended. Beginning in December of 1941, the Allies (led by the US Marines) had been fighting their way through the Pacific, "island-hopping" towards mainland Japan. The patrol,…
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…
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…
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