_THE END_

Ok,as I said with the collapse of the German forces in World War 2,its mean I have to stop to post any history fact.For those who was already visited my blog,thank you..hope you can proceed with the difficult part at Wikipedia or any encyclopedia site..but I fully recommend Wikipedia because its much easier to understand and it can be trusted..Thats all folks..thank you,do visit my blog's new look

The German Collapse

This will be the last history post of this blog. I shall never post any again..The German collapse, where it will be the end of World War 2..Let us start..

1.The allies were ready for the final attack on German but they focused to bombard the German but they focused to bombard the Germans land first..

2.RAF launched a series of aerial attack on Dresden with 800 warplanes in the night of 13th-14th February 1945 and continued by the U.S 8th Airforce with 400 warplanes in daylight..

3.The motive of these raid was alledgely to protect Soviet advance to entered Berlin's outskirt before storms the most beautiful city in Europe,Berlin..

4.Patton's 3rd Army reached Rhine at Koblenz early in March..

5.Hodges's 1st Army seized Remagen bridge at Rhine River..

6.Simpson's 9th Army reaached Rhine River near Dusseldorf..

7.All 3 armies were ordered to mark time until Montgomery's grand assault against the Germans troops position strength along the Rhine River..

8.At last, night of 23rd-24th March 1945, Montgomery attack by 25 divisions was launched off the Rhine River near Wesel.

9.Let us see the movement of Allies armies..

a)Canadian 1st Army:Drove ahead Netherlands.

b)British 2nd Army:Northeastward to Lubeck and to Wismar on to Baltic..

c)US 1st Army:Swept forward across Germany..

d)US 9th Army:Magdeburg through Leipzig..

e)US 3rd Army:To the border of Czechslovakia..

f)French 1st Army and US 7th Army:Drove to Austria..

10.March 28th 1945, Guderian replaced by Hans Kreb as chief of the general staff..

11.The western Allies reached Elbe River,60 miles from Berlin on 11th April 1945..

12.The eastern Allies reached Vienna on 6th April 1945 and took Konigsberg three days later.Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front and Konev's 1st Ukranian Front crossed Neisse River and within a week they were driving into the suburbs of Berlin..

13.By April 25th 1945,the armies of Zhukov and Konev had completely encircled Berlin and on the sameday they linked up with the Americans and British on the Elbe River..

14.During the night of 29th April 1945,Hitler married his meistress,Eva Braun and on 30th April1945 he comitted suicide with Eva in the ruins of Chancellery as the advancing Red Army troops were less than half a mile from his bunker complex..

15.The Germans troops willing to surrender to the Western Allies rather than to the Soviets..

16.On the Italian front,4 Germans divisions were transferred from Kesselring's command to the western front and on April 1945 the thin German defences in Italy was broken by an allied attack..

17.A surrender document was been signed on 29th April 1945 while Hitler still alive..

18.The surrender of German forces in northwestern Europe was signed at Montgomery's headquarter on Luneburg Heath on May 4th 1945 and a further document covered all German forces was signed with more ceremony at Eisenhower's headquarters at Reims,in the presence of US,British,and French delegations.

19.At midnight on 8th May 1945,the war in Europe was officially over..

The Soviets advance to the Oder

I will end the World War 2 topic tomorrow..With the end of the last topic which is "The German Collapse",I will customize my blog back into the normal daily blog,no more history and I will post what i'm going to do and my life maybe there will be some fact but not in a large scale of writing,it will be like "History On This Day" or something like that la..Ok,let us proceed..

a)Vistula-Oder Offensive

1.At the end of 1944,the Germans still held the Western Poland and their front still 200 miles east..

2.The Germans had checked the Soviet's summer offensive and established a firm line along the Narew and Vistula Rivers southward to Carpathians and in October they repelled the Red Army's attempt to thrust into the East Prussia..

3.Soviets troops moving up to the Eastern Balkan,pushing around through Hungary and Yugoslavia in a vast flanking movement..

4.Germans intelligence reported that some 225 Soviet infantry division plus with 22 armored division had been identified on the front between Baltic and Carphatians..

5.Hitler refused to transferred his troops to the Eastern Front but willing to stop the Allies at Ardeness..

6.At that time,he also refused to evacuate the German forces which was isolated in Courland,the Baltic seacoast..

7.The result,Guderian was left with a reserve of 12 armored division to backup the 50 weak infantry division..

8.Soviet's Vistula-Oder Offensive started on 12th January 1945 when Konev's army assaulted the German front at the Southern Poland..

9.Zhukov's army in the center of the front bounded from bridgehead near Warsaw..

10.On 14th January 1945,Rokovsky's army joined the offensive striking from Narew River,north of Warsaw and covered flank approach to East Prussia..

11.17th January 1945,Warsaw was captured by Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front.Konev's spearhead reached Silesia and crossed Oder River and captured Breslau and thus cut off Silesia's important mineral resources from Germans.

12.Zhukov 1st Belorussian front driving forward from Warsaw past Poznaj,Bydgosoz and Toruj to the Gulf Of Danzig.

13.25 German's divisions in the East Prussia has been cutting off by 2 Soviets spearhead..

14.Hitler created new army groups under the command of SS Gen Heinrich Himmler.Zhukov mechanized his troops on 31st January 1945 and crossed the lower Oder(40 miles from Berlin)..

15.Konev's Ukranian front reached Sommerfield(80 miles from Berlin) on Fenruary 13th 1945 and crossed Neisse River two days later..

16.The Americans and British had crossed Rhine while the Soviets took Budapest on 13th February 1945..

Thats all for today,tomorrow will be the end of World War 2..hopefully..

Defeat Or Victory

I have got my SPM result,from 10 subject I only got 5A's only..It is the BM,English,History,AG, and geography..Mathematic,B only..and the others I just want to cry..As I said,I am not good at all at add.math,physic,biology and chemistry and I did not want to announced the grade for those damn subject..But,yesterday has teach me that I will dare not to take any science subject again..I will continue to focus more in art,literature,geography and finally history..Sorry,but there was no picture or video on it..it is the secret thing,so that all of you can't see others result except the excel one..I will not post any history fact today..So,what do you think,Defeat Or Victory for me..In my point of view,actually I have won the easiest part but lost the crucial things..but its Ok..it just a mistake from my exit strategy in the battleplan on the SPM,nothing to say again,I have finally graduated from high school..I hope any universities can take me as their student,please...

The German Offensive in the West,winter 1944-1945

Sorry,I just can't wait to take my result,but I will keep posting the history fact for today..this day I will post the last German offensive in WW2..

1.Hitler raised 'Volksturm' or the homeguard for the defense of the Third Reich stated that all men between the ages of 16-60 years will be recruit in order to become a 'saviour' for the Third Reich..

2.French 1st and US 7th Armies had reached Rhine River at Alsace..

3.The German amassed 24 divisions for the counter-offensive at Ardeness under the overall command of Field Marshal Gerd Von Runstedt..

4.Let us see the movement of German offensive at Ardeness or well known as the Ardeness Offensive..

a)The 1st Offensive against the US weakest sector between Monschau and Echternach..

b)5th Panzer Army under Gen Hasso Von Manteuffeil will covered 7th Panzer Army which wheel northwestward to cross Meuse River of Namur in a drive on Brussels..

c)6th Panzer Army under SS Gen Sepp Dietrich will move to north to capture Antwerp..

5.Ardeness Offensive was launched by surprised on 16th December 1944 took the allies by surprised..

6.5th Panzer Army managed to crossed Meuse River at Givet and Dinant and reached the point of 20 miles of crossing it..

7.Small US forces under Bradley was encircled at Bastogne.The allies support by transported the 101st US Airborne Division under the command of Gen Chester Anthony McAullife..

8.26th December 1944,Patton's 3rd Army relief of Bastogne.The weather was cleared and the allied aircraft,some 5000 warplanes began to strafe and bomb the German forces..

9.During 8th-16th January 1945,the Germans troops began to withdraw.The Germans sustained 120000 casualties and the Americans sustained about 75000 in the famous Battle Of Bulge..

The Eastern Front,June-December 1944

1.After a successfull offensive against the Finns at Karelian Isthmuts had culminated in the capture of Viipuri on 20th June 1944,the Red Army began to conduct a major offensive on the German front in Belorussia..

2.Minsk fell to the Red Army under Gen Konstantine Rokossovsky on 3rd July 1944..

3.They reached Vistula-San River on 31st July 1944 and penetrated Warsaw.There,the Polish underground rose in revolt and gained control the city.SS Armored Division arrived to surpressed the revolt,Red Army stoodidly by across Vistula while the German crushed the revolt..

4.Red Army advance of 450 miles in a few week but the halt at Vistula was to last to 6 months..

5.On August 20th 1944,2 Soviets spearhead were launched in another direction against the German salient in Bessarabia..

6.Belgrade fell into Red Army on 20th October 1944 and a rapid drive from Transylvanian sector into the Hungarian plain brought Soviets to Budapest on 4th November 1944..

7.Finland had capitulated on September,and the Red Army offense the German forces remaining troops in Estonia,Latvia,and Lithuania..

Enough for today,tomorrow,I did not post any because I will take my SPM result..but Friday,I will post "The German Offensive In The West,winter 1944-1945"..

Operation Market Garden

2 days to go,tik tok tik tok and the clock ticking each seconds made me felt more anxious to know what will happen to my result on this thursday.To cheer up myself,I always wrote and post the topic which was considered boring for everyone in this world,history..yeah,you can see it,I just have only 4 followers rather than my friends that have a hundred or even thousands of followers..but,its okay,I'm satisfied with my blog,actually,having a blog make me so proud..I can improve my english,and I can share my simple fact to everyone eventhough not so many people visiting my blog..ha3x,okay..Today,I will post the final step for the Allies to throw the Germans from the Low Land Countries and push them back to their homeland..

1.Montgomery's 2nd Army need to cross Rhine at Arnhem but it was too risky..

2.By crossing Lower Rhine,the Allies could manage to outflank the German's Siegfried and encircled Ruhr Valley..

3.So,its required the paratroopers,a large scale of airborne forces to secure the key bridges stretches along Lower Rhine

a)82nd US Airborne:Grave,Groessbek,Nijmegen.

b)101st US Airborne Division:Son,Best

c)British 1st Airborne Division and Polish Airborne Division:Arnhem

4.The plan of action consisted of two operations:

a)Market: airborne forces of Lieutenant General Lewis H. Brereton's First Allied Airborne Army to seize bridges and other terrain, under tactical command of I Airborne Corps under Lieutenant-General Frederick Browning, and

b)Garden: ground forces of the Second Army to move north spearheaded by XXX Corps under Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks.

5.The Allies suffered heavy casualties but the way for the Montgomery's 2nd Army was cleared..

6.US 1st Army captured Aachen on 20th October 1944,Patton's 3rd Army secured Metz but 1st Canadian Army did not clear the Schelde estuary west of Antwerp.

7.It was believed that the failure of Market Garden comes in weather,intelligence failure and priority of operation..

8.The result of those three major operations,the Allies amazingly advanced of 350 miles in a few weeks was thus brought to halt when they reached Ardeness..

9.The Allies had a superiority of 20 to 1 in tanks and 25 to 1 in warplanes against the Germans..

10.The Germans near to collapse in August 1944,they were not prepared mentally and materially..

Maybe,tomorrow I will post about the Eastern Front on June-December 1944..just wait and see la..

Operation Dragoon

It is about another 3 days to the V-SPM Day or D-SPM Day..I hope V,signed for Victory.I hope it will be the grand finale for my effort..err,little effort that I have been shown 3 months ago..OK,I have promised to post 2 more major Western Allies operation against the Germans at Western Front right,so I will post the Operation Dragoon.

1.Operation Dragoon was launched on 15th August 1944,it was the continual of Operation Overlord,the landing at Normandy,and it was to push the Germans from the Low Land Countries since the French have been freed from their might of power..

2.It was conducted by the US 7th Army and the French 1st Army and the Overlord forces..

3.Both armies landed on the French Revieria where the Germans have only 4 divisions to oppose them..

4.Let see the allies movement during the operation..

a)US 7th Army:Drove Alps and took Grenoble..

b)1st French ArmyTook Marseille on 23rd August 1944 and advanced eastward through France up to Rhone Valley..

*At Rhone Valley,both US and French rejoined at Lyon and swiftly march northeastward into Alsace..

c)Montgomery 2nd Army:Entered Brussels on 3rd September 1944,took Antwerp on 4th September 1944 and crossed Albert Canal on 7th September 1944..

d)US 1st Army:Taken Namur and nearing Aachen to support Montgomery's 2nd Army..

e)Patton's 3rd Army:Captured Verdun on 31st August 1944,crossed Mossele near Metz on 5th September 1944..

5.Thats all folks,tomorrow I will post the 3rd operation conducted by the western allies at western front,the Market Garden..