Air-Force.ca's Fallen Comrades

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

We have severly underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the trechery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

- General Hienz Guderian, letter to his wife 1941

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Today in Military History

July 5

1900:

VC won by Sgt Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson, Strathcona's Horse, Wolve Spruit, Standerton

1943:

Germans launch Operation Zitadelle to eliminate the Kursk salient

1945:

Philippines declared liberated

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