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(1883- 1973) Cavalry officer, marshal of the Soviet Union, deputy commissar of defense, and commander in chief of the Soviet armies on the Southwestern Front during World War II. Semen Mikhailovich Budenny was born in Koziurin, in the Cossack district of the Don Oblast, on April 25, 1883. The son of non-Cossack peasants, he was conscripted into the Russian army…
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Waffen SS “Wiking” Kampfgruppe “Darges” with the commander of the Hungarian forces at the entrance of the Mountain Castle 8th…
The series of mountain trials, completed on 5 October 1944, would undoubtedly have contributed much to helicopter development under other…
The French engineers who designed the forts were well aware that the rifled, breech-loading guns that were increasingly coming into…
Weapons and Warfare has been updated with a save posts feature, accessibility options and a new store. While on a post page, you can now easily save a post to read later: New accessibility options…
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The superiority of the French artillery was not due to its equipment, but to its tactical handling and to the…
Almost as soon as the support and escort groups came together ‘things began to happen thick and fast’. The boat…
Meanwhile, German counter-attacks failed to retake Kiev but did push the Soviets out of Zhitomir, where the 1 Ungarishe Jabostafel…
Assassination of Louis I, Duke of Orléans in Paris in 1407 These were terrible times for the Armagnac princes. They…
The treaty with Guthrum gave Alfred the breathing space he needed to fortify and revitalize Wessex. As the last outpost of independent England, it was essential for Wessex to have an efficient military. Alfred the Great reorganized Wessex’s army, keeping half of the men on duty at any given time.…
Buford’s Morning Fight at Brandy Station, June 9, 1863. Following a series of meetings held in Richmond after the Battle of Chancellorsville, Robert E. Lee persuaded the Confederate leadership that the time had come for another invasion of the North. A northward thrust would serve a variety of purposes: First,…
In 1919 the Royal Navy had an urgent need for a three-seat spotter/reconnaissance aircraft. In order to save money, it was decided to adapt the existing Airco DH.9A, for which part completed airframes were available in large numbers following the end of the First World War and the subsequent cancellation…
Imperial Russian battleship Borodino at Kronshtadt, Augst 1904. Borodino was the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Russian Navy although she was the second ship of her class to be completed. Named after the 1812 Battle of Borodino, the ship was completed after the…
A Canadian Cyclist shouting down a dugout in German for men to come out. His fighting potential far outweighs their own. Mount Houy barrage map. The assault on Cambrai was to be the Canadian Corps’s introduction to urban warfare in the Great War. German desertion of the city on the…
Disposition of Iraq’s Army at the beginning of the ground war, 24 February 1991. Saddam’s intelligence organization, the General Military Intelligence Directorate (GMID), may have shared his aspirations, but not his optimism. From the beginning of the crisis, GMID assessed the Americans as likely to attack. In August the directorate…
The 300 Spartans takes us back a few thousand years to the invasion of the Persians. This film was a 1962 masterpiece that was shot near the Corinth canal, unlike the Frank Miller-inspired 300 which was made elsewhere. It is an ill wind, proverbially, that blows nobody any good. Terrible…
Shturmovaya samokhodnaya gaubitsa “Artshturm” SG-122 (Self-propelled Assault Howitzer “Artshturm”) Many German Mark III and Mark IV tanks were captured and converted to light SUs. The Russians converted captured German Mark III tanks into the SU-76i at Zavod No. 38. More than 1,200 of the German chassis were rebuilt as fully…
British coastal assault on St Cast in Brittany in September 1758. A German map, published…
Schnellboot S-80 torpedo boat Camo Operations with the Kriegsmarine S-boats were often used to patrol…
American Lend-Lease supplies to the USSR 1941–45. Soviet historiography is mocked in the West, where…
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