For chronological order, click here for the previous WW2 post ! By the end of January 1942, German forces had been pushed back from Moscow and suffered around one million casualties. Eager to retake the initiative, Hitler planned a summer offensive (Operation Blau) targeting oilfields in the southern Caucasus: a pressure point that could re-supplyContinue reading “The Grain Elevator: Stalingrad, 18th-22nd September 1942”
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The end of Yorktown, 4th June 1942
For chronological order, click here to see the previous WW2 post! Undeterred by its losses in the Coral Sea, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) prepared to invade Midway Atoll- 1,300 miles northwest of Hawaii – in a final effort to defeat the US Pacific Fleet. Committing their largest naval operation of the war, the JapaneseContinue reading “The end of Yorktown, 4th June 1942”
