Badass paratrooper or war criminal? It’s no secret this blog is a big fan of Ronald Spiers of Band of Brothers fame. I did a couple of pieces on him including When Men Were Men and All War Depends Upon It. This article is one of the most in-depth I have come across on…
Category: World War II History
Know Your WW2 History: William Slim – A Soldier’s General
Via: Fix Bayonets Here is, perhaps, World War II’s greatest general, and hardly anyone today knows his name. Field Marshal William Slim is best known for commanding Fourteenth Army in Burma during the Second World War (1939-45). In taking command, he inherited a disastrous situation in which, with practical skill and quiet charisma,…
Know Your WW2 Pacific War History: The Battle of Peleliu – A Meat Grinder of the Pacific War
Battle of Peleliu – Revisting a Meat Grinder of the Pacific War This is a long but worthwhile read. The author, Capt. Dale Dye, USMC, Ret. is an astute Marine Corp and Military Historian. He was the military advisor on several series and movies such as Band of Brothers, The Pacific and Platoon. I…
Know Your Military History: Jump Boots – the Airborne Trademark
Jump Boots – the Airborne Trademark {If you are a fan of WW2 Military History, Pacific Paratrooper is one of the BEST Blogs around! Subscribe Today!} Distinctive as Airborne itself, so are the dark, glistening jump boots of a paratrooper. Troopers glory in their significance and only they know the secret pride when they…
Know Your WW2 History: Kursk – The Battle that Changed Everything
Kursk: The Battle that Changed Everything It is 75 years since the Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history. More than 3,000,000 men and 8,000 tanks met, 400 miles south of Moscow. Yet today, once again, German tanks are facing Russian tanks, just a few hundred miles from the site of that…
Fast and Furious: The Philosophy and Mechanics of the Blitzkrieg Tactic
Fast and Furious: The Philosophy and Mechanics of the Blitzkrieg Tactic It’s the dawn of World War II, and the old ways of fighting aren’t cutting it anymore. Soldiers huddled in trenches, days turning into weeks with little progress—it’s a stalemate that no one wants to repeat. Enter the Blitzkrieg tactic, a plan that’s…
Fairbairn and Sykes: Shooting to Live
Fairbairn and Sykes: Shooting to Live Travis Pike provides a practical review of the classic book “Shooting to Live” by Fairbairn and Sykes. Considered by many to be a forerunner to modern defensive firearms training, the book focused on the use of handguns in self-defense scenarios. The authors, with their extensive experience in law…
The Australian Guerilla
The Australian Guerrilla I was shocked to learn that Tactical Wisdom wasn’t a new idea recently. During the early days of World War Two, Japan and Germany were on the move. It looked like nothing could stop the Imperial Japanese Navy, especially after they destroyed the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Soon after, they…
Know Your WW2 History: FDR Conspired to Start WW2
Roosevelt Conspired to Start World War II in Europe I will warn you ahead of time: This is a very long and dense read (I recommend splitting it up into parts) but if you want to learn the TRUTH about World War Two (not the propaganda you learned in school) I highly recommend it. For…
The Forced War, A Review
The Forced War Introduction The best litmus tests for today’s Dissident Right should include only one question: did the right side win the Second World War in Europe? If you answer yes, most likely you’re not a dissident. If you answer no, most likely you are. In this case, degrees don’t matter—neither does intent….