World War II History

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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Steven Terjeson | September 17, 2009

Today in WWII History
World War II History for September 17
1939 – The Soviet Union invaded Poland. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.
1944 – Operation “Market Garden” was launched by Allied paratroopers during World War II. The landing point was behind German lines in the Netherlands.

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Steven Terjeson | June 9, 2009

Explorers Search Bulgarian Waters for Soviet WW II Submarine
June 9, 2009, Tuesday | novinite.com

A Russia-Bulgaria submarine expedition begins in July, in Bulgarian Black Sea territorial waters, a search for a Soviet World War II Submarine. Photo by BGNES
Russian explorers are going to ask Russia’s government to assist them in their search for a Soviet submarine [...]

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Tags: 1942, Black Sea, Bulgaria, C-34, L-24, Soviet, Sub, Submarine

Steven Terjeson | January 27, 2009

Today in WWII History
World War II History for January 27
27 JAN 1941 – Ambassador Grew advised Washington of reports circulating in Tokyo of a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor being planned by the Japanese military in case of “trouble” with the US. Grew wrote that “the attack would involve the use of all the [...]

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Tags: 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, Ambassador, Germany, Japan, Pearl Harbor, Seawolf, Singapore, Soviet, Submarine

Steven Terjeson | January 26, 2009

Today in WWII History
World War II History for January 26
26 JAN 1934 – Germany and Poland signed a 10-year nonaggression pact: “… the moment has arrived for inaugurating a new era in Polish-German political relations by means of direct communications between the two countries.” It was proposed by Hitler, and Poland never consulted France, [...]

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Tags: 1934, 1942, 1945, Auschwitz, Concentration Camp, Germany, Poland, Soviet, Treaty

Steven Terjeson | August 22, 2008

Today in WW II History
World War II History for August 22

1941 – Nazi troops reached the outskirts of Leningrad during World War II.
1944 -Romania captured by the Soviet Union
On this day in 1944, Soviet forces break through to Jassy, in northeastern Romania, convincing Romania’s king to sign an armistice with the Allies and concede [...]

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Tags: Audio, Germany, Leningrad, Media, Podcast, Romania, Soviet, Today, USSR, WWII

Steven Terjeson | July 24, 2008

Today in WW II History
World War II History for July 24
1941 – Japan invaded China by moving through Southeast Asia, an area that France had long occupied. France had “agreed” to the occupation under Petain’s puppet government.
1943 – Britain launched Operation Gomorrah. The operation was consisted of repeated bombing raids against Hamburg’s industrial and munition [...]

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Tags: Berlin, China, Germany, History, Japan, Operation Gomorrah, Soviet, Today, WWarII, WWII

Steven Terjeson | July 13, 2008

Today in WW II History
World War II History for July 13
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.
1944 – Soviet General Konev establishes a new western border for the USSR
In 1944, General Ivan Konev, one of the [...]

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Steven Terjeson | July 12, 2008

Today in WW II History
World War II History for July 12
1943 – Russians halt German advance in a decisive battle at Kursk
On this day in 1943, one of the greatest clashes of armor in military history takes place as the German offensive against the Russian fortification at Kursk, a Russian railway and industrial center, is [...]

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Tags: Germany, History, July, Kursk, Soviet, Tanks, Tiger, Today, Union, WWarII, WWII

Steven Terjeson | July 8, 2008

Today in WW II History
World War II History for July 8
1941 – German General Franz Halder recorded in his diary Adolf Hitler’s plans for Moscow and Leningrad
“To dispose fully of their population, which otherwise we shall have to feed during the winter.”
On June 22, the Germans had launched a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, [...]

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Tags: Halder, History, Hitler, Russia, Soviet, Stalin, Today, WWarII, WWII