_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..

The Allies Invasion of Western Europe

I'm truly shock when my friend tell me that the SPM result will come earlier,he said it was today..but,its just a prank..damn it you Dolah,the actual day to receive my result will be on next thursday,on 11th March 2010.Let me proceed to our next lesson,the allies invasion of Western Europe,the continent must be liberate by those Krauts and it was begun at Normandy,Northern France..In the period between June and November saw many of the allies victory against the Germans from Western to Eastern Europe..

a)Operation Overlord

1.The OKH already expected an allied invasion of Northern France..

2.Gen Gerd Von Runstedt expected that the invasion will be at Calais and Dieppe,but Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and Adolf Hitler expected that the invasion will be at Coasts Of Normandy..

3.The Germans have 59 divisions spread over Western Europe and Lowland Countries,but approximately half of this number were static and the remainder may only included only 10 armoured or motorized division..

4.The Western Allies launched Operation Overlord,the invasion of Northern France took place on 6th June 1944-the war most celebrated D-Day..

5.Some 156000 men landed on the beaches of Normandy between Orne Estuary and the Contentin Peninsular.83000 British and Canadian will take the Eastern beaches and other 73000 Americans will take the Western beaches..

6.Once they land at all beaches,they will be under Eisenhower's supreme commander and Montgomery's immediate command..

7.The allies invanding forces and LZ..

a)Canadian 1st Army under Lt.Gen Henry Duncan Graham Crerar command will storm the Gold-Juno Beaches..

b)British 2nd Army under the command of Lt.Gen Sir Miles Dempsey will land on Sword Beach..

c)United States 1st Army under Lt.Gen Omar Nelson Bradley will storm the Omaha and Utah Beaches..

d)82nd and 101st US Airborne Division will be drop behind enemy line to cut the Germans supply and sabotage the facilities..

e)3rd and 6th British Airborne Division will be drop behind enemy line and capture strategic bridge and hold it until the reinforcement from the Sword come..

8.By 0900 AM on D-Day the coastal defences were generally breached,but Caen scheudled to fall on D-Day but held out until 9th July 1944..

9.US Forces(Western Sector) managed to captured Cherbourg on 26th June 1944 and turn southward to take St.Lo on 18th July 1944..

10.Runstedt urgent plea for permission to retreat provoked Hitler,on July 3rd 1944 Von Kluge replaced Runstedt as commander in-Chief in the west..

11.On 31st July 1944,the US 3rd Army under the command of Gen,George S.Patton broke the Germans line at Avranches,the gateway from Normandy to Brittany..

12.7th August 1944,the desperate 4 German Panzer Division try to seal the breach but failed..

13.Some of the US Forces swung southwestward and hope to seize Breton ports while the others went towards the crossing of Loire..

14.In the Falaise Pocket, a large part of the Germans retreating southward from the pressure of Allies left at Caen.The Americans took a flanking maneuver eastward while the Polish and Canadian take northward..

15.More allies troops landed at Normandy,On 1st August 1944,the 21st(British-Canadian) and the 12th(Americans) under Bradley landed and reinforced the remained allies troops at France..

16.Middle of August an eastward wheel wider had cut off the Falaise pocket had brought the Americans to Argentan(southeast of Falaise) and leveled with the British,Polish and Canadian advance on the north of Allies front..

17.On 17th August 1944,the US division successfully crossed Seine at Mantes-Gassicourt and took Orleans..

18.French Resistance under the command of Gen Jacques Leclerc pressing forward from Normandy,received the surrender of German forces at Paris and liberated the city on 25th August 1944..

19.The German forces would form a strong defensive barrier line if they pull back to the Seine River but Hitler stupidly ordered that there should not be withdrawal.The result was devastated for the Germans,the bulk of Germans armoured and infantry division largely trapped by the arc of Allies advance and that it what we knew about the Falaise Pocket..

20.Some 200000 Germans troops were taken prisoners in Frace and 1200 Germans tanks have been destroyed..

OK,next time I will post about another 2 major operation in the Western Europe along with the result..

The Allies Invasion Of Italy

We already knew that the forces of Allies successfully captured Sicily,from there an operation to invade Italy can be launched anytime and everywhere,the Germans also knew it,so they prepare to send the Allies to Sicily back from Italy..

1.From Sicily,the allies had a wide choice of directions for their next offensive..

a)Calabria: Toe

b)Salerno: Shin

c)Foggia: Heel

2.The 2 Army Corps of Montgomery's 8th Army crossed the Straits Of Messina and landed on the 'toe' of Italy on 3rd September 1943..

3.The mixed US-British 5th Armies under Gen Mark Clark landed on the 'shin' of Italy..

4.Kesselring just have 8 weak divisions to defend all southern and Central Italy..

5.The Allies managed to captured Taranto,Brindisi in a very short of time after their landing at Salerno..

6.The 5th Army crossed Volturno, 20 miles from Naples, while the 8th Army crossed Gariglinio and marched to Calabria(up to Adriatic Sea)..

7.The allies managed to breached German's Gustav Line through Monte Cassino and Appenines to the mouth of Sangro..

8.The bitter fighting continued until at the end of war,4 German divisions were transferred from Kesselring's command to the Western Front and in April 1945 the thin German defenses in Italy was broken by an allied attack..

9.A surrender document has been signed on 29th April 1945 when Hitler still alive..

Sicily and the fall of Mussolini

I'm was thinking to started the WW2 topic,because I had a time with it..too much time at home,no work to do and the SPM result will be know next week,hopefully I get a good result..Today,I will introduced the Western allies movement against the Germans,yeah,yesterday we have learn the Soviet movement against those Krauts..The Germans need to be stop,the Soviet successfully do their work by quickly push the Germans back to their initial point before the invasion.However,the Western allies also plan something to drive the Germans from Sicily and Italy.Hitler will faces his greater nightmare,he will lost his ally Bennito Mussolini and also his own troops by the Americans,Polish and British which are the invading forces.

1.The Axis had only 10 Italian division and 2 Germans Panzer Division units stationed at Sicily on 1943..

2.The Allies were preparing to threw some 478000 mens into the island,some 150000 men on the first day of invasion..

3.Under the command of Montgomery's British 8th Army and Patton's US 7th Army,the allies troops was to be landed on two stretches of beach which 40 miles long.The British will take some 20 miles southwest and the Americans will cover another 20 miles south of Sicily..

4.The Allies gained an air superiority,some 4000 Allied warplanes against 1500 Germans and Italians..

5.Sicily collapsed rapidly.The British drive towards Messina,while the Americans took Palermo on 22nd July 1943..

6.On 25th July 1943,Italian King,Victor Emmanuel III ordered the arrest of Mussolini and formed a new government which entered into secret negotiation with the Allies..

7.Field Marshal Albert Kesselring,the commander of Wehrmacht at Italy evacuated all axis troops from Sicily..it is about some 40000 Germans and 60000 Italians troops safely evacuated across the Straits Of Messina to the mainland..

8.The Allies sustained 22800 casualties,the Axis suffered 165000 casualties,30000 from them was the Germans..

The German Offensive

We knew that the German army won't yield easily after suffered a heavy casualties during the Soviets great counter-offensive..

1.On July 5th 1943,Hitler threw some 20 infantry divisions and 17 armoured divisions making a total of 3000 tanks to recapture Kursk.

2.But,the Soviets commander,Marshal Zhukov already knew the plan,and he had plan to attack the Germans before their offensive..the battle was started with a heavy bombardment by Soviet,then followed by the Germans,the German tank column got entangled in the deep of minefields..Heavy cooperation and having an air superiority,the Soviet Airforce quickly coordinated the attack,the Germans had only advanced 10-30 miles and no large Soviet prisoners was taken.Both forces suffered heavy casualties but the Soviet suffered too much..

3.On 12th July 1943,the Soviet under Zhukov unleashed their counter-attack and took Orel on 5th August 1943..

4.By this time,the Germans had lost 2900 tanks and 70000 men in the Battle Of Kursk probably the largest tank battle in history..

5.Finally,the German offensive was halted,the Soviets advance was accelerated and the German had been drove back to the Dnepr.

Stalingrad and the German retreat

I think I will start to post more frequently,because my facebook and myspace are became too boring,no friend request,no comment,no messages and everything..OK,yesterday I have posted the Operation Barbarossa and today I will introduced the fact of the German retreat during Barbarossa.In the early part of the Nazi invasion of Soviet Union,the Germans seem to accomplish the objective,but on the summer 1942 to February 1943,the Soviet Red Army unleashed their great counter-offensive which strokes the Germans..

1.Stalingrad was a large industrial city,it stretched for 30 miles along the banks of Volga..

2.The Panzer 4th Army diverted to help Kleist attack on Rostov and it was directed towards Stalingrad a fortnight later..

3.Gen Friedrich Paulus,the commander of 6th Army with 330000 troops advance eastward and countered the 62nd Soviet Rifle Division under the command of Gen Vasily Chuikov which encouraged his men to made a determined stands..

4.The Soviets had to supply their troops by boat and barge across the Volga from the other bank.Meanwhile,the German was reinforced by their reserves from their flank cover mainly from the Romanian and Italian divisions..

5.On 19th-20th November 1942,2 Soviets spearhead under the command of Gen Nikolai Nikolayevich,Gen A.M Vasilevsky and Marshal Geory Zhukov made a huge counter-offensive from north and south of the German salient whose tip at Stalingrad.By 26th November 1942,after penetrated deep into the German flanks,the two prongs attack had linked up about 70 miles west of Stalingrad,the encirclement of the remaining 250000 German 6th and 4th Army was completed..

6.Hitler ordered Paulus to "Stand And Fight",the order however doomed the depressed German army..

7.By Mid-December,Field Marshal Erich Von Manstein form a special army to rescue Paulus's forces inside Stalingrad but it was failed due to the fatal order by Hitler..

8.On 31st January 1943,Paulus surrendered with 91000 frozen and starving man and also 24 general with him..

9.Even west of Rostov,January 1942,2 Soviets army under Gen Nikolai Vatutin and the other one was under Gen Filip Golikov have crossed Don River and thrusting to the Donets between Kamensk and Kharkhov..

10.Golikov took Lozoyava on 11th February 1942 and Kharkov 5 days later..

11.Kursk retaken by 3rd Soviet Army under Gen Ivan Chernyakhovsky on February 8th 1943.The Germans had retreat from all of their territory that they had taken in their great invasion on the early part of the campaign.The Caucasus returned to Soviets hand..

The Nazi Invasion Of Soviet Union,1941

Oh my god,there is about less than of 2 weeks before I get my SPM result..hopefully,I get a nice and good result,so that I can further my studies in history..But,today,I wanted to post the Operation Barbarossa,the codename of the Nazi invasion of Soviet Union,its much longer than other post since I just can't simplify the fact but after a night study it back,finally I managed to make it short.So,let it begin..

1.The Germans alotted almost 150 divisions contained a total of about 3000000 men.Among these were 19 Panzer divisions,and it was ranged about 3000 tanks,7000 artillery pieces and some 2500 all types of warplanes..

2.It was the largest invasion forces in history of mankind.The invading forces which is means the Germans can be increased by more than 30 fresh divisions of Finnish and Romanian..

3.For the Soviet,they have 360 divisions,three times number of both tanks and warplanes as the Germans had,but their warplanes were more obsolete..

4.The OKH predicted that the Soviet regime will collapse within 6 months after the invasion..

5.On June 22nd 1941,the Germans offensive launched by three army groups..

a)Northern Forces:Gen Wilhelm Von Leeb,attacking from East Prussia into the Baltic States.

b)Central Forces:Gen Fedor Von Bock plus with Guderian's armoured division and another one from Gen Von Hoth thrusting through Smolensk and Moscow..

c)Southern Forces:Gen Gerd Von Runstedt plus with armoured group from Kleist will advance from Poland into Ukraine against Kiev,coasts of the Black Sea and the Sea Of Azov..

6.Germans army encircled Red Army position and made a large pocket.But,the isolated Red Army fought with a stubborness that the French not shown during the Battle Of France on 1940..

7.The Germans also being hampered by the scorched earth policy adopted by the retreating Soviets..

8.Mid-July,the Wehrmacht had advanced 400 mies and were only 200 miles from Moscow.The OKH proposed Moscow as the main objective,but Hitler wanted the major effect to be directed against Leningrad,through the Ukraine and the Donets Basin into the Caucasus..

9.Winter was approaching,Hitler halted Leeb's northward drive on the Leningrad.He ordered Runstedt and Kleist to press on Dnepr towards Don and the Caucasus,Bock was to resume the advance to Moscow..

10.2nd December 1941,some Germans division penetrated into the suburbs of Moscow.Red Army fought back with more effectively,heavily reinforced by the harsh Russian winter which paralyzed the Germans armoured group and frost bite among the troops..

11.Germans casualties had mounted to levels that were unheard of in the campaign against France and Balkans,by November the Wehrmacht had suffered 730000 casualties..

12.In the south,Kleist's army had already reached Rostov-On-Don(gateway to Caucasus) on 26th November 1941.The Soviet Red Army counter-offensive managed to recaptured Rostov on 28th November 1941..

13.On 6th December 1941,Soviet commander,Marshal Geory Zhukov launched first great counter-offensive which strokes against Bock's right at Elets,Tua,Klin and Kalinin.They were followed by another counter-offensive at Velikie Luki sector and triple convergence towards Smolensk..

14.The German general were filled in ghastly thought of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow..

15.Late in September 1941,Great Britain and United States Of America reinforced Soviet Union with a monthly quantity of supplies included the warplanes,tanks and raw materials.

16.The critical situation on the Eastern front did not deter Hitler from declared war against the Americans on December 1941.

17.March 1942,the Germans still maintaining their hold on the main bastion of front such as the town of Schulusselburg,Novgorod,Ryzhev,Vyazma,Bryansk,Orel,Kursk,Kharkov and Taganrog.

The Attack Of Pearl Harbour

I have started to think that I should continue my blog because there was no work to do now.So,after searched some simplest fact in my book,I found the attack of Pearl Harbour was quite simple enough to publish it in my blog.The Attack Of Pearl Harbour happened on 7th December 1941,the event where pulled the American into the World War 2.

1.Admiral Nagumo Chuici sailed westward undetected by any US Reconaissance until it had reached a point 275 miles from Hawaii

2.From there, a total of 360 warplanes was launched in 2 waves.The Americans was completely taken by surprise.

3.At Pearl Harbour before the attack,there was about 70 US fighting ships,24 auxilliary ships and some 300 warplanes.

4.The result of the attack,the American lost 8 battleships, 3 cruisers, 3 destroyers and 1 minelayer,180 warplanes was destroyed,2330 peoples was died and over 1140 wounded.

5.However,the oil depot was saved as well as a number of the Pacific's Fleet aircraft carrier,the Saratoga,Lexington,Langley,Yorktown,Hornet and the Enterprise.They were at sea at that time of attack and escaped harm.

6.On December 8th 11941,the US Congress declared war against Japan with only one dissenting vote

The Sinking Of HMS Hood and Bismarck

1.In May 1941,the German's battleship Bismarck and new cruiser,Prinz Eugen were put out of sea from Germany.
2.However,they were located by the British reconnaisance in North Sea near Bergen.
3.On 24th May 1941,the battle cruiser HMS Hood and Prince Of Wales engaged Bismarck and Prinz Eugen.
4.Hood was sunk,Bismarck fuel supply was put out of action,so her commander Admiral Gunther Lutjens decided to make for the French coast.
5.Separating from the Prinz Eugen which escaped,Bismarck was sought again some 660 miles west of Brest.
6.Then.she has been paralyzed by the torpedo bomber from Ark Royal,bombarded by King George V and later sunk by Rodney and Dorsetshire on May 27th 1941.

Russo-Finnish War

What we will learn this day is the Russo-Finnish War,an engagement between the Soviets and the Finnish during the early phase in World War 2..I have summarized it into the simplest facts and there it is..
1.Estonia,Latvia and Lithuania admitted Soviet garrisons onto their territory,Finland refused to comply it..
2.Finland have only 200000 troops in 10 divisions,while The Soviets brought 70 divisions,it is about 1'000'000 mens and some 1000 tanks.
3.Soviet troops attacked the Finnish line on 30th November 1939.
4.Finnish's Mannerheim Line was broken on 1st February 1940,the Soviets swept the Finnish position at Karelian Isthmuths.
Finland collapsed and suffered 70'000 casualties while the Soviets more than 200'000.
Thats all folks,the simplest from the simple..

The Battle of Britain

1.With France conquered,Hitler could now turn his forces on Germany's sole remaining enemy,Great Britain.
2.But,it was protected by the water of English Channel.
3.An amphibious invasion of Great Britain will be impossible since the Great Britain have the largest navy in Europe.
4.Luftwafte chief,Herman Gorring issued 2nd August 1940 as the Eagle Day,termed as the Operation Sea Lion.
5.Their objective was to open the way for the invasion by destroying the British's infrastructure,industrial town and the Royal Airforce military installation.
6.Great Britain disposed some 600 frontline fighter to defend the country.
7.The German's Luftwafte made available about 900 fighter planes and 1300 bombers.
8.The bombing raid was called The Blitz.
9.Luftwafte had no systematic plan of action,sometimes they seek to destroy the Great Britain's ports ..then,another Blitz they will try to raid the British's Fighter Command by bombing the installation..the others will seek direct strategic result by attack London,
10.Great Britain,however,capable detected hostilities from a various chain of radar.
11.The Battle of Britain started on 8th August 1940.
12.In 4 actions,German's Luftwafte lost 145 aircraft as against the British loss of 88..
13.By late of August.
a)Luftwafte lost 600 aircraft.
b)RAF lost 260 aircraft and badly needed fighters and experienced pilot.
14.April 1941,German's Blitz over Great Britain was withered.
15.The result,Luftwafte lost 1700 warplanes while RAF loss of more than 900.

Evacuation of Dunkirk

Today,I will post some simplest fact about the evacuation of Dunkirk...It was happened during the earlier phase in WW2.
1.For the Allies,they was trapped by the arc of the westward Germany advance from Ardeness to the Somme.
2.Dunkirk was now the only port left available for the withdrawal of the mass of the Allies troops from Europe.
3.On May 27,Luftwafte bombing Dunkirk,so that many of the thousands of men had to fastly evacuate from Europe.
4.It is about 198000 British and 140000 French and Belgian troops had been saved,but all of their heavy equipment had to be abandoned.
5.From 41 destroyers participated in the evacuation mission,6 was sunk and 19 damages.
6.The miracles of the evacuation happened because..
a)Hitler's fatal order on May 24 halting Guderian.
b)Fighter planes cover from Royal Airforce.

Leapfrogging

This strategy can be apply by the smaller forces when countering the larger forces.
1.Definition:Known as the buddy system.
2.Concept
a)Advancing personnel on or post a target area being defended by an enemy.
b)Requires dividing an attack into at least 2 parts.
3.Tactics and Execution
a)Team A will surpress the enemy,while Team B will change position and advance.
b)When Team B reach the objective,they will signaled Team A to advance while the members of Team B will surpressing fire.
c)This manuevres will be repeated until the defenders are forces to fallback.

Fabian Strategy

This was a defensive strategy used by the Roman Consul,Fabius Maximus to defeat Hannibal.
1.Concept
a)Known as "the delayer"
b)Pitched battle are avoided in favor of wearing down an opponent through a war of attrition.
2.Employment and Strategy
a)Weaker side believes time is on its side.
b)Also best adopt when no alternative strategy.
c)Maybe the coward and demoralizing type of strategy.
d)The policy of continual retreat.
e)Combined the scorched earth,giving up the territory without a fight.
f)Promise extended war rather than a quick victories.
3.Help to drove Hannibal from Italy

Charge

Today, I want to write about 3 strategies in this blog.All of these strategies was taken from my second book.The Battleplan Manual.
First,we start with the offensive tactic.The Charge
1.Definition:Advance towards the enemy at their high speed to engage in close combat.
2.Concept
a)The defending formation breaking up and scatter.
b)Cause panic for the defender,usually in mass charge.
c)Wild mass charge can be victorious.
d)Even in the firearm age,the charge usually conducted by the cavalry,with their lancer and sabre,it can still be won against the infantryman equipped with the rifle.
e)But it still got the disadvantage:
-When the enemy form square
-When the enemy defending a structure.
-When counter the enemy equipped with heavy machineguns.

World War 2

Yesterday, I didn't post anything right,this was because I was watched The Longest Day, a World War 2 epic movie..This movie was quite interesting, although it was black-white movie,but the storyline,sound was awesome..For history fact of the day,I would like to tell my opinion about the factor that affect and brought German to a disastrous result in WW2.
1.Hitler made and had decided a various of fatal order in WW2.
a)On May 24th 1940,he ordered Guderian to stopped,thus,the evacuation of the remained allied troops which are the French,British,Polish at Dunkirk successfully completed by the allies high command, the same evacuated troops fought the German when the Normandy invasion on 6th June 1944.
b)During Operation Barbarossa on 1941,the situation of German troops was very critical,but Hitler declared war against United States although they were not in war situation.
c)Hitler ordered Gen.Friedrich Paulus to stand and fight during the Battle of Stalingrad.Actually, Paulus can fight with his way by moving eastward and combined with the special forces led by Field Marshal Erich Von Manstein and make a counterattack against Zhukov at Stalingrad.
d)During the Normandy invasion,Hitler ordered the entire of Germans troops to hold their position and there should not be any withdrawal.The result was disastrous,they are being surrounded by a large pocket made by the allied troops.The desperated German troops disobey the order and tried to breach the pocket, as the result,many of them was slaughtered or became the prisoners of war.If they make a major withdrawal,the German forces will form a strong defensive barrier line along the Seine River and they might be repel the invasion.
e)Hitler refused to transferred his remaining troops to the Eastern Front which are threated by a large number of infantry and armour division.But,he concentrated his forces to western front and willing to stop the allied advance at Ardeness.
f)The last factor was,after Battle of Britain and Operation Barbarossa,the Germans was totally lack of armour vehicles,warplanes and of course,the troops.During the Battle Of Britain,Luftwafte lost 1900 warplanes and they lost their air superiority during the last phase of war,which are mean during the Normandy invasion and the Vistula-Oder Offensive.While in Normandy invasion,the allies gain a superiority of 20:1 in number of armour vehicles and 25:1 in the number of warplanes,while the Eastern Front which is nominally Soviet had more 225 infantry division and 22 armour group.For the Germans,they just have 59 division and 10 armour division to faces the Western allied and had only 50 infantry division and 12 armour division to make a last stand at Eastern Europe against the superior Red Army.

Trafalgar

Naval battle in Imperial Glory was just fine but it is too hard to board the marine right, the enemy ship was superior even if we fight their sloop..we can't get too close with them..Ok,let us start our lesson and it is about the famous Battle of Trafalgar
Battle of Trafalgar,21st October 1805
1.Franco-Spanish Fleet have 33 ships under the command of Adm. Pierre Villeneuve,the British Fleet under the overall command of Adm.Horatio Nelson have only 27 ships.
2.At 1150 AM, Nelson signaled his famous message

"England expected that every man will do his duty"

3.Then the British squadron attacked the van and centre of Villeneuve's line,majority of Nelson's ships broke through and shattered the French line in pell mell battle.
4.The battle ended in 0500 PM, Villeneuve was captured and he lost 20 ships which was surrendered to the British and along with 14000 men.
5.Nelson died at 0430 PM after wounded by a French sniper from Redoubtable.About 1500 British seamen was killed or wounded,but no ship were lost.
6.The defeat shattered Napoleon's plan to invade England since he was already stationed his 120000 La Grande Armee at Calais.

Waterloo

Battle of Waterloo,18th June 1815
1.Napoleon's final defeat and ended the Hundred Days of Napoleon's restoration.
2.It was fought between Napoleon's 72000 La Grande Armee and the combined forces of the Duke of Wellington and Von Blucher's 45000 men.
3.After defeating Blucher at Ligny and holding Wellington at Quatre-Bras, Napoleon's Marshal,Michel Ney and Emmaneul Grouchy failed to annihilate the enemy while their armies was separated.
4.Napoleon made a major blunder in delaying the attack on Wellington from morning until mid-day,allowing the ground to dry and give Blucher's troops exactly the time they needed to reach Waterloo and support Wellington.
5.Finally,Ney employed his troops in a coordinated attack and captured La Haye Sainte.Ney requested for infantry reinforcement but it was refused by Napoleon because he was threated by the Prussian flank attack.
6.Only after 7 PM, he release several batallions of the Imperial Guards to Ney when his flank secured.
7.Wellington had reorganized his troops, aided by the arrival of Prussians corps under H.E.K Zieten, together they advance and assaulted the French troops.
8.The panic French troops retreat disorganized and several battalion of La Grande Armee made a last stand rather than retreat.
9.Napoleon lost 25000 men and 9000 was captured by the British-Prussian troops. Wellington suffered a casualties about 15000 troops while Blucher lost 8000.

Austerlitz

Battle of Austerlitz,2nd December 1805
1.It was the first engagement of the War of the Third Coalition and one of the Napoleon greatest victory.
2.Napoleon's 68000 troops defeated almost 90000 Russians-Austrians nominally under Gen Mikhail Kutuzov.
3.The Allies decided to fight Napoleon west of Austerlitz,a place called Pratzen Plateau, which Napoleon had made a trap there.
4.Marshal Davout's corps of 10500 men resisted the Allies assault and later Marshal Soult with 20000 infantry was launched by Napoleon and Soult managed to smashed the weak Allies line at the centre of Pratzen Plateau.
5.With another 25000 reserve infantry, the Allies has lost hope and under Austrian commander,Gen Karl Mack, they surrendered to Napoleon.
6.The result, the allied lost 15000 men and 11000 captured, while Napoleon lost 9000 troops. The remnants of Allies army were scattered and broken.

Historical Battle in Imperial Glory

Imperial Glory have 6 historical battle to be play : Battle of Pyramid,Salamanca,Waterloo,Austerlitz,Friedland and Trafalgar.Each of the battle was the famous battle during the Napoleonic War.Well,In history of the day, i would like to post a simple fact about the battle..let us start with the Pyramid first.
Battle of Pyramid,21st July 1708
1.Napoleon invented his one significant contributions to tactic, the massive divisional square.
2.Napoleon's 25000 troops faced 40000 Egyptian led by Murad Bey, 6000 from them was the Mamelukes cavalry
3.The Egyptians were concentrated near the village of Embabeh with the pyramid of Giza on their flank.
4.At the height of the battle, Napoleon formed his forces in 5 divisional square, each was six ranks infantry and protected the cavalry and arttilery in their centres, They effectively repulsed the wild massed charge of Mamelukes.
5.After the battle, 300 French died while a large number of Egyptians was killed, captured or dispersed.

Charge of The Heavy Brigade

Shortly after the Thin Red Line and before the event of disastrous charge of the Light Brigade, there was another engagement during the Battle of Balaclava,the victorous charge of British's Heavy Brigade or also known as the Charge of Heavy Brigade.
1.8 squadron of the Heavy Brigade consisted of two each from the Scots Grey, 6th and 4th Dragoons Guard, 5th Dragoon and 1st Royal Dragoon were left in their original position to the west of No.6 redoubt.
2.Initialy, just 3 squadrons engaged the Ryzhov's cavalry, 2 of the Scots Grey on the left and one of the 6th Inniskillens Dragoons on the right, totaled about 300 men.
3.The Ingermanland Hussar under the command of Major Gen. Khaletsky was the first to engage the Heavies,
5.It was described by one of the member from Ingermanland..

"We had to fight with the regiment of Queen Victoria's Dragoons Guard in their Red Coat..neither we nor the English wanted to yield.."

Staff Cpt.Arbuzov

6.It was also described by the members of the Heavy Brigade when they managed to flanked the Russians

"We were superior in numbers, they outflanked by us, and they were in middle of us,I hope god will forgive me, for I felt like a devil than a man.."

7.Shortly, the 2nd squadron of Inniskillens attacked the left flank, followed by the 5th squadron of Dragoon Guards, Scots Grey crash the rear of the Russians.4th Dragoon attacking the right rear,Royal Dragoon striking the right front.
8.The Russian cavalry retreating..

"At length they turned and well they might.."

Lt.Godman

9.The charge had lasted no more than 10 minutes.
10.The Russians suffered 40-50 killed and 200 wounded, while the British lost 10 men and 98 wounded.

Thin Red Line

Yesterday i'm playing the historical game, the Age Of Empire 3..then, I discovered one of my unit special ability..the British's Red Coat special ability was a Thin Red Line..do you know what is it, yeah,after studying about it at Wikipedia and I finally got the answer.
1.The famous Thin Red Line was described by William Russel during the clash of Ryzhov's cavalry and the 93rd Highlander Regiment.
2.Liprandi order Ryzhov's cavalry consisted of 8 squadron of the 11th Kiev Hussar, 6 of the 12th Ingermanland Hussars, 3 of the 53rd Don Cossack Regiment and the 1st Ural Cossask, totalling some 3000 men and 16 guns.
3.0900, Ryzhov across Chernaya and streamed into the North Valley.
4.Then, he detached 400 men from the Ingermanland Hussar to head straight for the allied infantry position.
5.Gen. Sir Colin Campbell, the high officer in command of the 93rd Scottish Highlander Regiment ordered his men to move forward from behind the hillock that had sheltered them from the Russian artillery.
6.To boost the moral of his men.Campbell said..

"Men,remember there is no retreat from here, you must die where you stand..:

7.William Russel described the battle as the Thin Red Line..

"The Russian dash at the 93rd, the ground flies beneath their horses feet, gathering speed at every stride, they dash on towards that thin red streak topped with a line of steel"

8.The Turks fired a volley at 800 yards and fall back.
9.The second volley come within 150 yards, supported by fire from guns of Barker's W Battery.
10.3rd volley delivered by the 93rd right Grenadier Guard company under the command of Cpt.Ross.
11.The Ingermanland Hussars retreating and heading towards the Causeway Height.

Charge Of The Light Brigade

1.Commander of the Light Brigade, Earl of Cardigan did not attack as he believed his order from Lucan required him to hold position, thus the golden opportunity was missed
2.Liprandi had infantry and artillery on the Causeway Height as well Zhabokritsky men and guns on the Fedyukhin Height
3.Raglan issued Lucan a confusung order to attack 2 fronts with infantry support.
4.The infantry did not arrived, Raglan deployed the Light Brigade to cover the North Valley and the Heavy Brigade to protect the South Valley.
5.Raglan order the cavalry to attack on 1045 a.m

"I wishes the cavalry to advance rapidly to the front, follow the enemy carrying away the guns. Horse artillery may accompany, French cavalry in your left. Immediate?"

6.However, Lucan was confused by the order that dispatcher, Cpt Nolan insolently stated that Raglan desired an attack and indiscriminately pointing up the North Valley towards Ryzhov's guns rather than Causeway Height.
7.Cardigan questioned the orderas they were artillery and enemy forces on 3 sides.
8.Lucan replied

"But Lord Raglan will have it, we have no choice but to obey.."

9.Mounting up,some 673 men from the Light Brigade consisted of the 4th and 13th Light Dragoons, 18th and 11th Hussars and also the 17th Lancers under the overall command of Earl of Cardigan moved off down the valley as Raglan able to see the Russian watching in horror.
10.Charging forward, the Light Brigade was hammered by the Russian artillery losing nearly half its strong before reached Ryzhov's forward guns.
11.Its realized that the charge was aimed at the wrong target and there is an attempt to stop or turn the brigade before the charge.
12.In their left, the French's 4th Chasseurs D'Afrique regiment swept along Fedyukhin Height to drive the Russians from their position.
13.It was succesfully done by the French and provided cover for the remaining elements of the Light Brigade as they will use it to withdraw later.
14.Battling around the guns, the Light Brigade drove off some Russian cavalry, but was compelled to retreat when they realizedthat no support was coming.
15.Surrounded, the survivor fought their back up the valley under fire and later retreating.
16.The Heavy Brigade consisted of the 4th Royal Irish, Scots Grey, 5th Dragoons Guards and the 6th Inniskillens Dragoons entered the mouth of the valley but did not advance further.
17.Lucan saw no point in having a second brigade move down and that he was to render assistance to Light Brigade.
18.Earl of Cardigan survived the battle.He led the charge from the front, under heavy shelling, never looking back, did not see what was happening to the troops behind him, having reached the Russians, took part in the fight and then returned alone up the the valley without bothering to rally.
19.The aftermath was disastrous for the Light Brigade, from 673 men, 110 killed(less than 17%), 129 wounded, 32 taken prisoners and the brigade was about to reduce to 195 men only..375 horses was killed.
20.Marechal Pierre Bosquet commented the charge

"C'est magnifique, mais ce'nest pas laguere, c'est de la follie"
("It is magnificent, but it is not war, it is madness")

21.The Russian commander believed that the British must have been drunk before the charge.
22.The British cavalry reputation was enhanched after the charge..
"The reputation of the British Cavalry was significantly enhanced as a result of charge, though the same can't be said for their commander.