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ROA (Vlasov’s army)
Private of the ROA (Vlasov’s army), 1942-4501 – Dutch field jacket with ROA collar tabs and shoulder straps, Heeres eagle on the right breast02 – M-40 trousers03 – dog tag04 – M-34 forage cap with ROA badge05 – boots06 – M-42 leggins07 – German main belt with ammo pouches08 – M-24 grenade09 – M-31 canteen10 – bayonet11 – M-39 webbing12…
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The Race to Meet -1945
Infantrymen of the U.S. First Army (left) extended welcome hands to Russian troops on a broken bridge over the Elbe River at Torgau, Germany on April 25, 1945. The meeting of the soldiers of both nations cut the German Reich in two. War correspondents had begun offering odds on which…
Wola and Ochota are Lost, 6-11 August 1944 -Warsaw Rising
Borgward B IV z Panzer-Abteilung 302. Panzerabteilung 302 (Fkl), was a radio-controlled tank battalion that had 24 StuG III assault guns used as control vehicles and about 50 Goliath and B IV remote control demolition vehicles. The Goliath would prove particularly useful in destroying Polish barricades, but there were not…
Austro-Turk Wars (1529–1739)
The siege of united Christian forces in Buda, 1686 No fewer than eight wars fought between the Austrian and Ottoman Turkish Empires, 1529–1739. The Turks sought to expand into Europe proper and the Austrians stood in the way, while harboring expansionist dreams of their own. The war of 1529–1533 was…
POWs – A Comparison of Treatment
The Wehrmacht or Waffen-SS took 232,000 British, Commonwealth, and American prisoners during the war, most in the course of the last year of fighting in Italy and France. The short duration in captivity of most, along with the prospect of pending Allied victory in the west, meant they enjoyed relatively…
Louis Alexander Andrault Langeron
(1763-1831) Russian general and corps commander. He was born Louis Alexander Andrault, chevalier comte de LangĂ©ron (to mention but one of many other aristocratic titles) and enlisted at the age of fifteen as a sous-lieutenant in the French Guards (Gardes Français). He later served at Caracas and St. Domingue in…
Mamelukes of the French Imperial Guard
In December 1805, brigadier general Jean Rapp led a memorable attack at Austerlitz, when he charged at the head of two squadrons each of the Mounted Chasseurs and the Mounted Grenadiers of the Guard and the Guard Mameluks and decimated the Chevalier Guards of the Russian Imperial Guard. Within the…