OVERLORD'S BLOG

I tend to write these articles a week in advance, and as it's now currently Canada Day, I figured I should finally do an article on a Ca...

The commander of the S-35 tank, sits in his turret, peering out from his cupola, across the Seine River at Melun. His tank sits on a side s...

After the closure of the Falaise Pocket the Germans began to fall back from the Allies, and the pursuit across France began. The Germans did...

During the run up to World War Two the Norwegian Army was woefully under equipped. This stemmed from pacifism and neutrality from competing ...

There are any number of battles in military history which boil down to "how did you mess that one up?". Where one side has all the...

Disclaimer: This one is written from mostly French sources, and so was put together using Google Translate, so it might have some errors cre...

At 1615 on the 15th of October 1944 two US combat patrols met in a muddy area of countryside. The soldiers were from the 1st and 30th Divisi...

As is well known one of the main problems during the Second World War was logistics, especially the securing of ports after a landing on a h...

Disclaimer: the accounts from which I draw this are all a bit blurred. So this article might be wrong. The web indicates two books that hold...

Late in August 1940 a Royal Marine officer stepped through the gates of the airfield at Ma'aten Bagush in Egypt. The Royal Marine was Ca...