Erin Booker | December 20, 2009
With an audience as large and diverse as WWarII.com, it’s pretty much a given that some of you readers are reenactors, like me. And if you’ve entered the world of reenacting even a little bit, you’ll notice the lack of a feminine touch. It’s no secret: there are few places for women in WWII reenacting, [...]
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Tags: Arbeit macht frei, Female, Nazi Germany, Poland, Red Army, Red Cross, Reenacting, Reenactors, Russia, Soviet Union, United States, Women, World War II
Steven Terjeson | December 20, 2009
As a resource no longer available online I have saved the website zhukov.mitsi.com about Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov and the eastern front and made it available on the WWarII archives. Below you will find the table of contents:
Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov
Site Map
Archives
Russo-Japanese War
Barbarossa
General Winter
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Kursk
The Tide Turns
Assault at Seelow Heights
Battle for Berlin
Soviet [...]
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Tags: archives, Army Group, Battle of Berlin, Battle of Kursk, Battle of Stalingrad, History, Kursk, Russia, Seelow, Soviet, Soviets, Stalingrad, Tank, Twentieth Century, Wars and Conflicts, Website, World War II, Zhukov
Steven Terjeson | July 13, 2009
Audio Clip: BBC Charles Gardner Reports On Convoy Attack & Dogfight (14 July 1940)
Today in WWII History
World War II History for July 13
13 July 1941 – Britain and the Soviet Union signed a mutual aid pact, that provided the means for Britain to send war material to the Soviet Union.
13 July 1944 – Soviet General [...]

WWII History - BBC Charles Gardner On Convoy Attack - Dogfight (14 July 1940) [3:34m]:
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Steven Terjeson | June 9, 2009
Today in WWII History
World War II History for June 9
9 Jun 1940 – Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.
9 Jun 1944 – The Russian Army invaded Karelian Isthmus in Finland. Russia was fighting to gain back territory that had been ceded to it under the terms of the Treaty of Moscow of [...]
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Tags: Finland, German, History, minelayers, Moscow, Nazi, Norway, Photo, Russia, Soviet Union
Steven Terjeson | June 2, 2009
Today in WWII History
World War II History for June 2
Damaged B-17 96th BG, 8th AF at Poltava, Russia (22 JUN 1944). Part of Operation Frantic.
2 JUN 1944 – The United States began “shuttle bombing” in Operation Frantic. The operation was created soley to destroy Germany’s war economy.
Operation Frantic was a series of seven [...]
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Steven Terjeson | January 27, 2009
Medvedev orders precise Soviet WWII death toll
IRINA TITOVA – Published January 27, 2009 – The Olympian
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered officials to determine the precise Soviet death toll in World War II as the nation marked the 65th anniversary of the battle that broke the Nazi siege of Leningrad.
Russia, which suffered hugely in [...]
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Tags: Death Toll, News, Project, Russia, Soviet Union, Veterans
Steven Terjeson | January 8, 2009
Today in WWII History
World War II History for January 8
8 JAN 1936 – Japan said it would withdraw from the London Naval Conference unless it won the right to parity in the number of men-of-war it could have in relation to the other powers.
8 JAN 1940 – The Finns scored a major victory on [...]
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Tags: 1936, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, Bombers, Budapest, Germany, Hitler, Japanese, Mussolini, Roosevelt, Russia, Stalingrad
Steven Terjeson | November 30, 2008
World War II History for November 30
1939 – The Soviet Union attacked Finland.
the Red Army crosses the Soviet-Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft. Helsinki was bombed, and 61 Finns were killed in an air raid that steeled the Finns for resistance, not capitulation.
The overwhelming forces arrayed against Finland convinced most Western nations, as [...]
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Tags: 1939, 1943, Churchill, Conference, Finland, Helsinki, Roosevelt, Russia, Soviet Union, Stalin, Teheran
Steven Terjeson | November 19, 2008
Today in WW II History
World War II History for November 19
1940 – Hitler urges Spain to grab Gibraltar
Adolf Hitler tells Spanish Foreign Minister Serano Suner to make good on an agreement for Spain to attack Gibraltar, a British-controlled region. This would seal off the Mediterranean and trap British troops in North Africa.
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Tags: 1940, 1942, Caudillo, Don, Franco, Germans, Gibralter, Hitler, Russia, Spain, Wiki
Steven Terjeson | October 30, 2008
Today in WW II History
World War II History for October 30
1941 – FDR approves Lend-Lease aid to the USSR
On this day in 1941, President Roosevelt, determined to keep the United States out of the war while helping those allies already mired in it, approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease loans to the Soviet Union. The terms: [...]
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