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Off-Topic / Re: Which kind of music are you listening to?
« Last post by Redbadd on 02-06-2023, 23:06:13 »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CkV_WQdZ_4
 
Who knew tori amos except Me and Dago, and thought she was stil alive in 2023.

Edit: nvm this is a 1996 recording. Watch at 0.20 though.
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General Discussion / Re: Operation Avalanche - A New FH2 CMP Campaign - Join Us
« Last post by RAnDOOm on 02-06-2023, 11:06:20 »


FRIDAY , June 2nd, 18hUTC , the map OUTSKIRTS OF ANZIO will be played in the Forgotten Hope 2 Campaign

History
"On January 22 the Allied VI Corps landed on the beaches near Anzio, 33 miles (53 km) south of Rome. The assault force included the U.S. 3rd Division, British 1st Division, and U.S. Rangers. In 24 hours the Allies landed 36,000 troops and 3,000 vehicles and took control of Anzio and the neighbouring town of Nettuno.
Only two German battalions were present in the area, and a swift dash inland could have seized the Alban Hills—covering the immediate approach to Rome—or even Rome itself. However, the Allies’ plan had been based on the calculation that the Germans would immediately counter the landing. Thus, they were primarily concerned with consolidating the beachhead, while the main forces in the south were to take advantage of the anticipated weakening of the enemy’s resistance there. The Germans did not react in the way expected.

When the lack of opposition near Anzio became clear, Gen. Harold Alexander, head of the Anglo-American Fifteenth Army Group, wished to quicken the move inland. VI Corps commander Gen. John P. Lucas opted for a more cautious approach, however, and no serious advance was attempted for more than a week. This allowed Kesselring ample time to switch his reserves to the scene, while he also held in check the forward drive of the main Allied forces on the Cassino sector. By the end of January, the VI Corps had been sealed in. On February 3, the 12th day after the landing, the Germans developed a powerful counteroffensive against the Allied position at Anzio. This in turn was checked, but the Allied force was left in an awkwardly shallow and narrow bridgehead."








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Off-Topic / Re: Which kind of music are you listening to?
« Last post by nysä on 01-06-2023, 13:06:58 »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUIlp1rH61s

Hecq - Redom Solid
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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day
« Last post by nysä on 01-06-2023, 13:06:50 »


Zehden bridgehead 1945.
Spoiler
(slide from a color propaganda film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6FQa2CcDqs.
Trivia-bit: In March 1944, 425 examples of Flak 8.5/8.8 cm 39 (r) were in use with home-based AA units. In the final months of the war, most of these guns were transferred to frontline units, and another 100 were utilized as Festung-Pak in the West.
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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day
« Last post by Seth_Soldier on 30-05-2023, 19:05:02 »
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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day
« Last post by nysä on 30-05-2023, 15:05:26 »


Balga Peninsula, March 1945.
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Off-Topic / Re: Which kind of music are you listening to?
« Last post by nysä on 30-05-2023, 15:05:35 »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9XIky0PejI

Robert Levon Been - Mercy Of Man
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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day
« Last post by nysä on 27-05-2023, 13:05:24 »

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Off-Topic / Re: Which kind of music are you listening to?
« Last post by nysä on 27-05-2023, 13:05:58 »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWOTgxsdOVA

Nordcore GmbH - Power Of Darkness Part II
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General Discussion / Re: Operation Avalanche - A New FH2 CMP Campaign - Join Us
« Last post by RAnDOOm on 25-05-2023, 18:05:03 »


FRIDAY , May 26th, 18hUTC , the map OPERATION DIADEM will be played in the Forgotten Hope 2 Campaign

History
"Operation Diadem, also referred to as the Fourth Battle of Monte Cassino or, in Canada, the Battle of the Liri Valley, was an offensive operation undertaken by the Allies of World War II (U.S. Fifth Army and British Eighth Army) in May 1944, as part of the Italian Campaign of World War II. Diadem was supported by air attacks called Operation Strangle. The opposing force was the German 10th Army.

The object of Diadem was to break the German defenses on the Gustav Line (the western half of the Winter Line) and open up the Liri Valley, the main route to Rome. General Sir Harold Alexander, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in Italy, planned Diadem to coordinate roughly with the invasion of Normandy, so that German forces would be tied down in Italy, and could not be redeployed to France.

Four corps were employed in the attack. From right to left these were the Polish II Corps and the British XIII Corps, of the Eighth Army, and the French Corps (including Moroccan Goumiers) and the U.S. II Corps, of the Fifth Army. The Fifth Army also controlled the U.S. VI Corps in the Anzio beachhead, some 60 miles northwest."











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