See the below vide from Sabaton, a cover of a song originally written and performed by Radio Tapok (who had previously covered their "Attack of the Dead Men" in Russian) Consider a nation where a performer can unapologetically and unironically write such a song, and be very popular. If you're wise, you don't pick fights with them.…
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I know I'm not the first in these circles to bring up this new song, but since I mentioned it in my last post on so-called Christmas music [https://thelastredoubt.com/christmas-music/], here is the latest from Sabaton's upcoming album. Yes, they are doing another album fully dedicated to the Great War / World War One to follow up "Great War.". If this song is any indication, it's going to knock my socks off. While I really liked the last album, and Bismark, and loved the show they put on pre-…
Also, in World War II, on the other side of the world [https://infogalactic.com/info/Normandy_landings]... > The Normandy landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front…
A year ago, the turning point in the war against the Japanese in the Pacific [https://infogalactic.com/info/Battle_of_Midway]. > The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Between 3 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance decisively defeated an attacking fleet of…
80 years ago today, on May 27th, 1941, the Bismark was sunk [https://infogalactic.com/info/German_battleship_Bismarck] by the British fleet, either directly, or by being scuttled after being rendered immobile.…