In the summer of 1942, the British Eighth Army was losing the war in North Africa. Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps had smashed ...
ON THE morning of November 8th a small crowd—one sprightly second world war veteran with a cane, a group of junior military attachés from allied countries and some curious tourists—gathered at the ...
A month after the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation opened in June 1942, the Newport News command joined the equally new and untested Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Force in Norfolk to plot the largest, ...
Eighty years ago today, 107,000 American and British troops triumphed over the Axis powers in North Africa, ending the regime’s cruel antisemitic laws. The weeklong campaign, known as Operation Torch, ...
Veterans Day 2012 has me once again reflecting on 1942, the 70th anniversary of the year the tide of battle changed in World War II. A 70th anniversary may not seem particularly important until we ...
A month after the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation opened in June 1942, the Newport News command joined the equally new and untested Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Force in Norfolk to plot the largest, ...
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The mailboat brings TORCH: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory, by the prolific naval historian Vincent O’Hara. I liked it — clear, well-written, and fact-packed. Not the first book someone ...
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