January 2, 2021 • 17m
At the ongoing Arcadia Conference, 26 nations sign the Declaration of the United Nations. Otherwise it is very much a week of moti...Read more
January 9, 2021 • 19m
The US government realizes that it cannot send help to relieve the US and Filipino forces in the Philippines, but it does not tell...Read more
January 16, 2021 • 17m
Operation Pauchenslag, long-range German submarines operating just of the US Coast, kicks into action this week, as does the Japan...Read more
January 23, 2021 • 17m
Nazi Germany's "Holocaust by Bullets" has already claimed over a million lives over the past 8 months; this week German authoritie...Read more
January 30, 2021 • 16m
The Japanese advance on Singapore has gotten close enough that the British have destroyed the causeway to Singapore Island. The Ja...Read more
February 6, 2021 • 17m
The Japanese advance in Burma and the Dutch East Indies, but they've reached the end of the Malayan Campaign- Singapore, which the...Read more
February 13, 2021 • 18m
The Soviet Red Army has managed to surround some 100,000 German soldiers in the Demyansk Pocket. The Allies are surrounded in Fort...Read more
February 20, 2021 • 17m
The most humiliating defeat in British history according to Winston Churchill- 80,000 men lost as prisoners of war! Humiliated by ...Read more
February 27, 2021 • 17m
The Japanese are advancing in the Dutch East Indies and Burma, brushing aside defenders, but their biggest victory this week is at...Read more
March 6, 2021
The Japanese advance in Burma continues, threatening Rangoon, and also make landings on Java and New Guinea. They even go so far a...Read more
March 13, 2021 • 16m
Rangoon in Burma falls to the invaders without a shot, the Dutch East Indies surrender 100,000 men to them at Batavia, and the Jap...Read more
March 20, 2021 • 16m
MacArthur makes one of the most iconic remarks of the whole war, but considering the fact that the Philippines seem unsalvageable,...Read more
March 27, 2021 • 16m
The Allies make plans to bring the war to Germany by possibly attacking in North Africa. Holding Malta might be the key to such ad...Read more
April 3, 2021 • 18m
Britain's campaign to firebomb the old towns of Germany where civilians reside begins in earnest this week. The British also destr...Read more
April 10, 2021 • 16m
After holding out since the beginning of the year, the American and Filipino defenders at Bataan can do so no more, and they surre...Read more
April 17, 2021 • 17m
The Doolittle Raid is just a little bombing raid over Tokyo that doesn't do that much physical damage. It does, however, have big ...Read more
April 24, 2021 • 16m
After last week's Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, pretty much the entire Japanese fleet is sent out looking for American ships. They do n...Read more
May 1, 2021 • 16m
Now Burma and control of the Burma Road have fallen to the Japanese. Can nothing stop them? The Allies are thinking about maybe us...Read more
May 8, 2021 • 19m
This week sees a major clash between the naval forces of the Japanese and the Allies. Both sides take big damage, though on the ta...Read more
May 15, 2021 • 16m
The Soviets pre-empt a German offensive with one of their own in the south of the Eastern Front, but that's not the only fighting....Read more
May 22, 2021 • 16m
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov arrives in London to meet with Churchill, but at home in the USSR the Germans have launched an ins...Read more
May 29, 2021 • 17m
Erwin Rommel begins his surprise new offensive with "Rommel's Moonlight Ride", bringing all of his mighty mobile units to the fray...Read more
June 5, 2021 • 20m
The supposedly surprise Japanese operations against Midway Atoll and the Aleutian Islands kick-off, but they don't know that Allie...Read more
June 6, 2021 • 17m
Midway isn't the only fight right now. Germany is trying to crack the mighty fortress of Sevastopol and take the whole Crimea. In ...Read more
June 7, 2021 • 18m
We left off last time with several burning behemoths. Watch today to see the action that follows, not just on the high seas, but a...Read more
June 12, 2021 • 17m
It's a week of starts and stops. The Battle of Sevastopol kicks into high gear, and the Battle of Gazala enters its third phase. A...Read more
June 19, 2021 • 16m
Two convoys head from opposite ends of the Mediterranean to supply Malta, hoping to run interference for each other, and the Battl...Read more
June 26, 2021 • 18m
Fall Blau, the huge Axis summer offensive in the Soviet Union, is supposed to being this, but is postponed to next. The smaller Op...Read more
July 3, 2021 • 19m
It's that time of the year again- the time when the Axis Powers drive deep into the Soviet Union. Fall Blau is the name of this ye...Read more
July 10, 2021 • 20m
Adolf Hitler is not happy, and yet phase one of Fall Blau has accomplished all of its goals and done so ahead of the timetable. Ho...Read more
July 17, 2021 • 16m
The second phase of Fall Blau begins with second guessing by the Axis Powers and constant changes in directive. The Soviet Union's...Read more
July 24, 2021 • 19m
The Soviets keep withdrawing from the advancing Axis forces, and Hitler keeps issuing contrary orders to try and stop that, with t...Read more
July 27, 2021 • 14m
"I said DAMN, this traffic jam... How I hate to be late, hurts my motor to go so slow. Time I get home my supper be cold. Damn, th...Read more
July 31, 2021 • 18m
Operation Edelweiss opens with a blast, and as the Wehrmacht closes in on Stalingrad, Stalin issues that famous order. There aren'...Read more
August 7, 2021 • 17m
The Axis Forces are on the move on the Eastern Front and in the Caucasus, but this week the Allies begin an offensive of their own...Read more
August 14, 2021 • 20m
The Axis advance into the Caucasus is going great... except the oil towns they take have no oil, and wasn't that the whole purpose...Read more
August 21, 2021 • 18m
The Axis advance in the Caucasus takes Mt. Elbrus, and the one on Stalingrad continues, and there are several raids of note this w...Read more
August 28, 2021 • 23m
The Battle of the Eastern Solomons takes place this week- another carrier battle. As for the Germans, they're advancing on Staling...Read more
September 4, 2021 • 18m
As the war turns three there is is no slacking in the fighting. Erwin Rommel launches another Axis attack in North Africa, but it ...Read more
September 11, 2021 • 15m
Adolf Hitler sacks Wilhelm List, Army Group Commander in the Caucasus. His replacement does not have military command experience. ...Read more
September 18, 2021 • 13m
Here's an extra weekly episode for you. The suburbs of Stalingrad have fallen and the fight for the city proper is about to begin,...Read more
September 18, 2021 • 20m
It's a big week, but by now they all are. The fighting in Stalingrad is intense, the fighting on Guadalcanal is intense, and the ...Read more
September 25, 2021 • 17m
Franz Halder, German Army Chief of Staff since the war began, loses his job this week, but the offensive this summer has failed to...Read more
October 2, 2021 • 19m
The fighting for Stalingrad continues, but the Soviets forces are split and the Volga is on fire. In the Caucasus, the Axis forces...Read more
October 9, 2021 • 18m
Things are looking pretty grim for Vassily Chuikov's 62nd Army in Stalingrad this week, as the German 6th Army launches its bigges...Read more
October 16, 2021 • 20m
The Americans win a naval victory off Guadalcanal and even manage to reinforce the Marines there with the first Army units to arri...Read more
October 23, 2021 • 18m
Could this be the beginning of the big break in North Africa? The Allies have the men, the armor, and the fuel... they just have t...Read more
October 30, 2021 • 20m
The Allies may be on the verge of a breakthrough in North Africa, but they're losing at sea to the Japanese this week, and the Axi...Read more
November 6, 2021 • 18m
After all these months of fighting, the British 8th Army breaks through Erwin Rommel's Axis positions in North Africa, but the All...Read more
November 13, 2021 • 22m
Operation Torch goes off this week, the Allied invasion of French Northwest Africa, but this prompts the Germans to invade Europea...Read more
November 20, 2021 • 19m
After months of stubborn defense the time has finally come for the Soviet Counterstroke, but is it in time to save Stalingrad? And...Read more
November 27, 2021 • 21m
Last week’s counterattack was just the beginning, for the Soviets launch another giant offensive this week. And things look bad fo...Read more
December 4, 2021 • 19m
The Soviets have launched offensives on the entire eastern front and by now hundreds of thousands of men are surrounded at Staling...Read more
December 11, 2021 • 20m
The Japanese try and fail to supply their starving soldiers. The Allies fail to break through in Tunisia and New Guinea. The fight...Read more
December 18, 2021 • 17m
Just a few weeks ago massive offensives were launched in North Africa and the Soviet Union, against the Axis. These operations and...Read more
December 25, 2021 • 19m
The Soviet offensive Operation Mars is over; it has failed, but Operation Little Saturn has been such a success that the Axis are ...Read more