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Stalingrad: 1943 and 2013

Georgia Boy 61 Wrote: Feb 07, 2013 12:29 AM

Well-done, george1001.... the U.S. campaign during WWII in the Pacific was one only the United States could have waged. Not even Great Britain was then capable of projecting power half-way around the globe on such a massive scale as we were. The legendary efforts of the USMC at Guadalcanal are now well known, but don't forget the sacrifices of the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy during the same campaign. Of the three branches, the navy actually suffered the most casualties in the Solomon Islands campaign.

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Stalingrad: 1943 and 2013

Feb. 2 marked the 70th anniversary of the end of one of World War II's most decisive and utterly destructive battles, the five-months of slaughter in the Russian city then called Stalingrad.

In 2012, this column revisited several major battles of 1942, including Midway and El Alamein. Midway destroyed Japan's strategic offensive capabilities. El Alamein began the Western Allies' long drive to Berlin. Winston Churchill saw Britain's North African victory as, "perhaps, the end of the beginning."

Subsequent allied victories on the Western and Eastern fronts proved Churchill correct, with Stalingrad the eastern end of the beginning.

However, the defeat Adolf...

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