Here are entries that are tagged “war.”
On this date in 1979, Soviet forces assaulted Tajbeg Palace and killed Afghanistan’s President Hafizullah Amin, his 11-year-old son, and 150 other persons.
On this date in 1919 the Treaty of Versailles was signed, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France in the D-Day invasion of German-occupied Western Europe.
“This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that’s the way it’s going to be. We’re going down there, and we’re throwing everything we have into it, and we’re going to make it a success.” — U.S. Army General Dwight Eisenhower
In March I was happy to spend much of two days viewing, hearing, and reading exhibits in the National World War Two Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.