Operation Market Garden – Part 2
As in all desperate situations, the courage and tenacity of the human will was demonstrated time and again.
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Articles by Wild Bill Wilder
Operation Market Garden – Part 1
At the beginning of September 1944, the German forces were reeling from the Allied onslaught. An orderly retreat had turned into chaos.
Read MoreProkhorovka: The Deciding Battle of Kursk
Kursk would mark the end of the great German offensives. It would also signal the beginning of the Russian recovery of its land and its dignity. And no one could tell a soldier of the Motherland that revenge is a dish served cold.
Read MoreJust in Time!
Wild Bill Wilder takes a look at the heroic actions of “Combeforce” in North Africa, 1941 – a fast unit with one mission in mind – prevent the Italian Army from escaping!
Read MoreDeja Vu The Desert Rats
Wild Bill Wilder takes a look a look back at Operation Desert Storm, and the British involvement in particular.
Read MoreThe Panzer Graf
Generalleutnant Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz served Germany mostly on the East Front – he would eventually become known as simply “Der Panzer Graf (The Tank Count).”
Read MoreThe Guards Return To Fight In Russia – 1941
As the older, more politically influential commanders were killed by the enemy or executed by order of STAVKA for “failure in battle”, younger, more visionary officers took their place.
Read MoreThe First Guards Tank Brigade – 1941
After the great Communist revolution of 1917, and the institution of Marxism-Leninism in the biggest nation in the world, the military institutions of Russia went through radical change.
Read MoreTarawa – The First Day
Using the islands of the south and central Pacific as stepping stones, the American forces had begun to move inexorably toward Japan.
Read MoreVietnam: Years of Glory and Grief
A new millennium has put the war in Vietnam even more into the category of the distant past. Forty years separate us from those troubled times.
Read MoreTanks and Tankers in Korea, 1950 – 51
With the renewed crisis in Korea, we briefly step back in time to where it all began, over 50 years ago.
Read MoreNight Warriors of the Desert
In the desert war of 1941, both sides had their own brand of Special Forces. They were men trained to a fine edge in combat, with bold spirits and a desire to take chances.
Read MoreAlong the Beaches on Saipan!
Wild Bill Wilder gives us a glimpse of what it was like for the troops on the ground during the battle of Saipain, June 15th, 1944.
Read MoreMovieography – A select list of Pacific flicks
Wild Bill Wilder lists the movies and documentaries focusing on the Pacific War that rank among his personal best. See if your favorite is on the list!
Read MoreWar in the East – Part Two
The United States, with all her industries and people devoted to winning the war, was developing the largest, most powerful armed forces in the world. Unhampered by attacks from the air, the factories turned out a never ending stream of material.
Read MoreThe War in the East – Part One
By the end of World War One, Japan was seen emerging from a dark medieval past into a growing industrial might. Of all the countries of the Far East, Japan was fast becoming a candidate in the arena of world powers.
Read MoreSnoopy’s Point – Vietnam
Riverine fighting along the Rach Ba Rai River, September 15, 1967
Read MoreThe First Team in the ‘Nam
Wild Bill Wilder takes a look at the role of Air Cavalry in the Vietnam War.
Read MoreOperation Bluecoat – Opening The Way From Normandy
The Fuhrer still did not consider the American fighting man to be a resolute, well-disciplined soldier. That would change with time and experience.
Read MoreAvoiding the Trap – Kirovograd, USSR, 6th January 1944
The Soviet High Command had an ambitious plan that called for a series of attacks intended to breach the Dniepr Line, isolate the Crimea and hopefully trap Four German armies.
Read MoreDesert Knights – An Overview of the War in North Africa
Erwin Rommel, renowned German general of the Second World War envisioned the desert as a great ocean. His tanks like ships on that open sea. He saw his tanks as battleships controlling that sea, and they were the important thing in his mind.
Read MoreEdson’s Ridge – Guadalcanal
Wild Bill Wilder gives us a dramatic account of the fierce fighting for the volcanic island of Guadalcanal in 1942.
Read MoreChosin Reservoir ’50
It has been 55 years since the Marines “attacked in another direction” during the campaign around the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. Wild Bill Wilder gives us some insight into this very personal battle against terrain, the bitter cold, and the swarming Chinese.
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