Armies of WW11

A complete list of the names of the soldiers interred at the Dieppe Canadian Cemetery located in Dieppe, France. RANK FORENAME SURNAME AGE REGIMENT UNIT – SHIP – SQUADRON Private JOHN RANDOLPH ABBOTT Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C. Private SIDNEY LEOPOLD ABSE 19 Royal Army Medical Corps Private EDWARD WILLIAM ADAMS 25 Royal Regiment of […]

Hitler established the Deutscher Volkssturm, in English meaning German People’s storm or People’s army,  on September 25, 1944. It was first announced in a secret decree on October 18, the anniversary of the great victory of the Prussians, Saxons, Poles, Swedes and Russians over Napoleon at Leipzig in 1813, dubbed the “Battle of the Nations”.  […]

  Waffen- SS Order of Battle, Normandy, June 1944 On June 6, 1944, the Hitlerjugend and Panzer Lehr Divisions were ordered to move against the British breaches as the Allies poured ashore on D-Day. They were under the command of “Sepp” Dietrich’s I SS Panzer Corps. The Leibstandarte Division remained in Belgium to counter the […]

Remembrance Day is commemorated each year on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month — the moment in 1918 when the guns fell silent at the end of the First World War  1.  It Was Originally Called Armistice Day Remembrance Day was initially intended to commemorate the Armistice of Compiègne. A signed […]

  Royal Navy Carrier Air Groups, 1945 Carrier Air Groups were first created in June 1945 to align with U.S. Navy policy in the Pacific following the end of the war in Europe, involving frontline squadrons reorganized into carrier Air Groups (CAGs). The CAG organization continued into the postwar period, being reorganized in September 1946 […]