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Leopold Trepper The Soviet border guards were captured semi clothed as they stumbled half-awake out of their barracks. The German Army Propagandakompanien (PR) photographers caught the dazed look on their shocked faces as they stood with hands raised in the watery spring dawn. They were the victims of Stalin’s willful determination not to believe the evidence of his intelligence services…
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It is probably true that Hitler and the OKW were also more comfortable planning a land campaign into Russia than…
On the first volley from the Grenadiers the French Canadian auxiliaries, one half of the non-Indian French forces, turned tail…
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Capture of HMS Ardent by the frigates Junon and Chantil. Early on the 17th, when the French and Spanish ships…
In 1755, as overall commander in America, Braddock had started off with several British advances against the French, most of…
The 47mm SA 39 TAZ was a more involved development of the mie 1937 47-mm (1.85-in) anti-tank gun, which had…
The Romans founded Londinium (now called London) in 43 AD. This artist’s illustration of Londinium in 200 AD shows the…
Whether the longbow could penetrate armour or not remains controversial. Attempts to work this out, even by scientific testing, have been complicated by the issue of the draw-weight. Other factors include range, the condition of the bowstrings, the type of arrow in use, and the type of armour worn by…
France had fought World War I without a heavy tank. In July 1918, at the very end of that conflict, it began development of such a machine. Manufactured by FCM (Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, Le Seyne, Toulon), the Char 2C was intended as a breakthrough tank or “Fortress…
Leading the Hunsdon Wing over Berlin during its successful foray on 16 April 1945, was a Norwegian, Lieutenant Colonel Werner Christie. This painting by Mark Postlethwaite GAvA shows Christie, at the controls of his personally-marked Mustang, KH790 “WHC”, shooting down one of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190s that the RAF long-range…
In 1240 a military campaign was launched from Livonia against Pskov, resulting in the overthrow of the faction that supported the rule of Aleksandr Iaroslavich. Early in the spring of 1242 Aleksandr recaptured the city and on 5 April defeated the Livonian army in what has become known as the…
As Me-262 pilots gained more experience in flying the Me-262 in combat, all were in agreement that special measures should be taken to protect them at the beginning and end of their flights. For one thing, there was a need for the airfields to be more effectively disguised. The pilots…
As World War I bogged down in the trenches, each side sought a means of breaking the stalemate. Germany’s first attempt was a weapon developed in secret more than a decade earlier. In 1901 Richard Fiedler rolled out a prototype of what he called a Flammenwerfer (“flamethrower”). Fiedler’s early design…
Great Ottoman Cannon 1453. Once connected, the two pieces created a cylinder 5.2 metres wide – a colossal size, at the time! The set weighed about 19 tons and had a 75 cm calibre, which means it could project rocks with that diametre, weighing around 600 Kg, at a distance…
Battle of Vögelinsegg (May 15, 1403) Following the Covenant of Sempach (1393), the Canton of Appenzell sought to break free from the control of its feudal liege lord, the Abbot of St. Gallen. Appenzell won the initial fight at Speicher, or Vögelinsegg (May 15, 1403), where the Swiss forces used…
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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