Organisation

39th Guards Rifle Division

Organisation Soviet 6 Min Read

The 39th Guards Rifle Division was part of the 62nd Soviet Army, which was formed from the inactive 7th Reserve Army in July of 1942. The 62nd Army was assigned to forces resisting the German thrust towards Stalingrad. Command of the 62nd Army was placed in the hands of Major General V. Ia. Kopakchi, who was then replaced by General…

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Organisation Personnel 10 Min Read

LANDSKNECHTE

Landsknechte. “Companions of the country.” French: “lansquenets.” Mercenary infantry originally formed in the late 15th century from petty war bands (“Knabenschaften”) of wild youths. These were unemployed older apprentices overflowing from the highly restrictive Guilds, or other surplus young males produced by a time of demographic expansion. Such “lads” (“Knechte”)…

Organisation Personnel Russia 10 Min Read

The Pomest’e System

Ivan III began the process of asserting centralized authority over the army. Before his reorganization, the armies available to the grand prince directly reflected the political character of the Russian lands. Each ruling prince, as well as some of the prominent boyars, maintained his own military retinue. This arrangement enabled…

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Fourteenth Air Force

14th Air Force B-24, China, c. 1944. Newly arrived Fourteenth Air Force B-24 Liberators on…

Austro-Hungarian Cavalry WWI

Pack-horse of a cavalry machine gun detachment; members of these and the telegraph detachments were…

Red Army Shermans of WWII Part I

The story of the Sherman tank in Soviet service during World War II has received…

Soviet NKVD IV

On February 5, 1943 this army was designated as the 70th Army with Far-Eastern, Transbaikal,…