On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich launched its invasion of the Soviet Union, named after Barbarossa, the Holy Roman Emperor of the Middle Ages. That bare, declarative sentence can in no way convey the magnitude of the military, societal, and political catastrophe that began that day with the German artillery bombardment at 2Continue reading “Two Days in June: Soldaten des Reiches”
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Two Days in June
June is an important month for militarily historic events. Many monumental battles and campaigns have happened in June. Why June? In the northern latitudes, June coincides with better, warmer weather, and more daylight. Ideal conditions for military operations. For me, and I suspect some of you too, June is the month when two of myContinue reading “Two Days in June”
War is hell, but contact is a …
For U.S. grunts who served 12 or 13 months in Vietnam no word can describe the particular terror and misery of that war like “contact.” For REMF POGs, War was hell; but for grunts, contact was a motherf__ker, to use the crude argot of the infantrymen. Oddly enough, both sides sought contact to achieve theirContinue reading “War is hell, but contact is a …”
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