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

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The battle we are now approaching demands a colossal measure of production capacity. No limit on rearmament can be visualized. The only alternatives are victory or destruction... We live in a time when the final battle is in sight. We are ready on the threshold of mobilization and we are already at war. All that is lacking is the actual shooting.
- Reich Marshal Hermann Goering, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe (1936)
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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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