Maria Ogborn
D-Day Battlefield Tour
This blog follows my recent tour of the D-Day and Normandy Battlefields. I was unsure of how to put this blog together, but I feel that...
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Maria Ogborn
Jul 23, 20225 min
Operation Fortitude: The Allied Deception Campaign
On 6th June 1944, the biggest amphibious invasion in history would assault the Normandy coast, comprised of 180,000 soldiers and nearly...
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Maria Ogborn
Jun 7, 202210 min
The Battle of the Scheldt
By September 1944, the Allied forces had finally broken out of Normandy, liberated Paris and were making their way towards the Rhine and...
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Maria Ogborn
Apr 12, 20224 min
Battle of the Bulge Tour – The German Ardennes Offensive 1944-1945
Finally, after over a year of waiting, I travelled to the Ardennes on a tour of ‘The Battle of the Bulge’. Having read books and articles...
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Maria Ogborn
Dec 3, 20212 min
Book Review:
The Eastern Front: 1914-1920, Michael S. Neiberg & David Jordan, Amber Books, 2021, pp. 224, ISBN: 9781838861308 When the match for war...
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Maria Ogborn
Aug 30, 20216 min
Native Americans in the First World War
Soon after the U.S declared war on Germany in April 1917, Native Americans began to enlist to fight for their country. This was as...
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Maria Ogborn
Jul 14, 20217 min
‘Sparrow Force’ and the Battle of Timor- 1941-1943
Following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour in December 1941 and Japan’s subsequent entry into the Second World, the Dutch requested...
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Maria Ogborn
Jun 15, 202116 min
28th Maori Battalion - 1939-1945
Formation and Mobilisation When war broke out in September 1939, Māori leaders offered the services of men for both the defence of New...
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Maria Ogborn
May 15, 202110 min
The Battle of Anzio -1944
With Allied success in North Africa and Sicily between July and August 1943 and the fall of Mussolini, in late July, the Allies believed...
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Maria Ogborn
Apr 27, 202115 min
Operation Thursday and the Chindit Strongholds -1944
Operation Longcloth, the first Chindit operation in February 1943, was not a military success. It did, however, provide experience in...
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Maria Ogborn
Apr 8, 20216 min
The 1st Canadian Division at Neuve-Chapelle
On the eve of war in 1914, King George V asked ‘my people of the Overseas Dominions’[1] stand alongside Britain and the crown in the face...
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Maria Ogborn
Mar 22, 20216 min
French Forces at Kum Kale - 25th April 1915
In the first months of 1915, as the stalemate on the Western Front continued, the Allies launched a plan to attack the Ottoman Empire. As...
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Maria Ogborn
Mar 10, 202112 min
The Female Agents of SOE
Special Operations Executive (SOE) In June 1940, a secret volunteer service was recruited to create havoc and to wage war behind enemy...
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Maria Ogborn
Mar 1, 20217 min
The 333rd Field Artillery Battalion
On August 5,1942, the 333rd Field Artillery Regiment was organised as a segregated coloured unit at Camp Gruber in Muskogee, Oklahoma. On...
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Maria Ogborn
Feb 16, 20219 min
The Chinese Labour Corps on the Western Front
On the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916,19,000 British troops were killed and 57,470 were wounded. This tragic loss...
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Maria Ogborn
Feb 8, 20218 min
Chindit ‘Operation Longcloth’- 1943
‘Victory in war cannot be counted upon, but what can be counted upon is that we shall go forward determined to do what we can to bring...
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Maria Ogborn
Jan 15, 202113 min
Military Psychiatry: The First World War to Vietnam.
The twentieth century brought with it a change in the character of warfare leading to military psychiatry becoming increasingly prominent...
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Maria Ogborn
Jan 3, 20213 min
Belgium’s Forgotten Angels
On 16th December 1944, German forces began a counteroffensive that aimed at turning the tide for Germany. The attack, focused in the...
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Maria Ogborn
Dec 10, 20204 min
The 5th (Service) Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment, Gallipoli, 1915-1916.
I begin this blog looking at the 5th (Service) Battalion due to the fact my own Great-Grandfather served with them until early 1916. Many...
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