Background The American airborne landings in Normandy were the first American combat operations during Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy by the Western Allies on June 6, 1944, during World War II. Around 13,100 American paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions made night parachute drops early on D-Day, June 6,…
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Battle of Caen, Operation Charnwood, July 1944
Background The Battle for Caen (June to August 1944) is the name for the fighting between the British Second Army and German Panzergruppe West in the Second World War for control of the city of Caen and vicinity, during the Battle of Normandy. The…
Iron Cross Pick Up Game.
Well, another WWII Wednesday and I needed to put a game together. Unfortunately, I had to deal with some unexpected home issues, so was not able to get my act together. We…
Battle of Mortain, August 1944.
Background On 25 July 1944, following six weeks of attritional warfare along a stalemated front, American forces under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley mounted an attack code-named Operation Cobra, which broke through the…
Operation Cobra, July 1944.
Background Operation Cobra was the codename for an offensive launched by the First United States Army (Lieutenant General Omar Bradley) seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy Campaign of World…
Crescent Root, Series 3, 15mm Building Review
View of the new buildings with Zvedza KV1s. Each large square is an inch. Crescent Root just keeps the new released coming this year. I’m not sure how much longer my bank…
Normandy Visit (Part Two)
Background The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Code named Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The…
Battle of Flushing, October 1944
Background The city of Antwerp and its port was captured by British 2nd Army in early September 1944. While 21st Army Group’s priority at the time was Operation Market-Garden, no sense of urgency was placed in securing the…
Battle of Walcheren Causeway, October 1944
Background By 31 October 1944, all lands surrounding the Scheldt estuary had been cleared of German control, save for Walcheren Island, whose coastal batteries commanded the approaches to the waterway. These guns…
Counter Attack at Calais (May 1940)
Background The Siege of Calais (1940) was a battle for the port and town of Calais during the Battle of France in 1940. The siege was fought at the same time as the Battle of Boulogne, just before Operation Dynamo,…