He was on fire Patton. His army was racing through France after D-Day, in early summer 1944. Patton wanted to run all the way to Berlin because Germans were falling back. His tanks had no gas. The trucks weren’t keeping up. But when Patton asked for…
The short answer is that he didn't need to. Field Marshal Zukhov was hyped too much during the war, as the face of the Great War, and he had a guaranteed lifetime of comfort ahead The face that every Soviet citizen would recognize, just as much …
Picture this: a young German soldier arrives in North Africa, uniform stiff and new. He quickly learns that the desert doesn't care much for regulations. It's scorching hot, sand gets everywhere, and those heavy boots are a nightmare. He see…
Eisenhower biggest mistake was that he ignored warnings and advice. The US Military had a very peculiar way of working. High ranking officers would draw up a war plan themselves and their subordinates had to make it work, no mater how insane. Admira…
June 6, 1944, was a triumph for General Dwight D. Eisenhower (left). Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (right) knew it meant inevitable defeat. In April of 1943 Eisenhower called Rommel 'Great General,' but 'Not a Superman' . When we think…
