OVERLORD'S BLOG

Last week we left the Zeebrugge raid in mid battle, as HMS Vindictive slammed into the mole and her troops got ready to charge. Part One. ...

The St Nazaire raid of the Second World War is well known, what's less well known is that a very similar problem to the St Nazaire one ...

The Tet Offensive of 30th of January 1968 is an interesting example of utterly losing the battle, but in the process winning the war. The ...

On the 7th of August 1942, the US Marine Corps stormed ashore in the opening of the Guadalcanal campaign. Overhead USMC planes fought with J...

At the start of the war the Mediterranean was an Italian lake, however as the war progressed the Allied forces began to claw control back. T...

In late November 1942 , twenty sappers of the 1st Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers were picking their way across the Tunisian landscape. ...

We left the Ioki Detachment as the Soviet bombardment lifted on the 20th of August 1939. As the men of the lead platoon raised their heads t...

In the last few years I've talked about the battles of Nomonhan several times, and today I'll be returning to that battlefield. Firs...

At 0430 on the 14th of May 1917 Zeppelin LZ-64 (Formerly LZ-22) was cruising about over the North Sea near Terschelling. She was engaged on ...

At the start of the Battle of the Bulge on the 16th of December 1944 several freezing, scared, ill-supported engineers were manning a roadbl...