The Germans are the first to figure out that trench warfare can be overcome by concentrating firepower on one weak spot in a line and then running over it with tanks, infantry in half-tracks and trucks, and mobile artillery - and then heading straight for the enemy's rear area headquarters and supply depots. This is blitzkrieg. "Lightning war."
Comic strip that explains WW II in a few minutes. Click on the little strip to expand it.
The World at War is the epic documentary series on the war. There's too many clips of it on youtube for me piece together. Your local library should have it.
Movie: The Young Lions. (Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Dean Martin). The careers of three young soldiers in WW II. Two American. One German.
1 September – 6 October 1939. The Invasion of Poland. Montage of Polish and German Soldiers. Movie: Poland, First to Fight. Documentary. Movie: "Lotna." Contary to reports, Polish cavalry was NOT used against German tanks. They were used as a mobile reserve and fought dismounted as infantry.
13 December 1939 The Battle of the River Plate. German battleship Graf Spee is taken down by British Royal Navy. Overview. Documentary.
10 May – 25 June 1940. The Battle of France.
Documentary. Movies: "Weekend at Dunkirk, and "Dunkirk." Another documentary.
Tit for tat between Germany and France.
The apotheosis of the trench: the Maginot Line.
August-September 1940 The Battle of Britain.
The Royal Air Force Fighter Command prevents the invasion of Britain by beating back the Luftwaffe.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Winston Churchhill.
The documentary. The movie.
27 May 1941 Sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. A video model representation of the sinking.
4–7 June 1942 The Battle of Midway.
Documentary. The movie trailer. (Charton Heston, Henry Fonda)
17 July 1942 - 2 February 1943 Battle of Stalingrad. Germans versus the Russians. Documentary. Movie: Enemy at the gates.
August 7, 1942 – February 9, 1943. The Guadalcanal Campaign. One documentary containing previously unseen footage.
February 19 – March 26, 1945. The Battle of Iwo Jima. The movie "Flags of Our Fathers." And "Letters from Iwo Jima."
April 1, 1945 – June 22, 1945. The Battle of Okinawa. "Some military historians believe that Okinawa led directly to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a means of avoiding the planned ground invasion of the Japanese mainland." Japanese civilians were caught in the middle, pressed into service, or volunteered. It was a very nasty business. Film from the Japanese perspective. About the film.
6, 9 August 6, 1945 The Atomic Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Original 1945 documentary. Another documentary.
"I am become death, a destroyer of worlds."
Sacrificial lambs for the ultimate survival of humanity?
The world finally crossed the critical threshold of Mutually Assured Destruction. With not a little gallows humor, we can certainly say that the cork had finally been stuck in the pig's behind. We can not have a total war like WW I and II without it quickly becoming nuclear. Here after, our wars are going to be proxy wars of limited scope.
The Ultra Secret, C.S.Lewis, Malcome Muggeridge, and whether history can really be known or not.
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