The M43 field cap or “Einheitsmütze” was extremely popular with the German soldiers during the Second World War and was used extensively by both...
Stalingrad was as much the turning point for the air force as it was for the Red Army, and Soviet flyers shot down approximately 900 German...
To the Commander in Chief of the German Sixth Army, Colonel General Paulus, or his representative and to all the officers and men of the German...
Among the Soviet aircraft that were now harassing German forces within the pocket and further to the west on the main front line was the...
With a crew of two or three, the Po-2 first flew in January 1928, and over 13,000 had been built by June 1941. Though it was used primarily for...
Paul Riessbeck, aged 20 was a pilot and on duty in the Caen area to intercept enemy planes. On 23rd July 1944 his plane, an ME 109 was damaged and...
After the surrender of the German troops defending the Longues battery, the Royal Air Force engineers took control of the cliff-top and set up an...
Just like all the other major construction works forming the Atlantic Wall, but with the added curiosity of being situated right in the centre of...
The picture below shows the German Radio/Telephone communications bunker as it was in 1944 after it had been captured by the Americans. [img]...
The 'Tank Fist' was one of the most successful 'throwaway' anti-tank weapons of World War 2. Produced In huge numbers and four main variants, the...
Mme Lucie Aubrac, young French Resistance fighter, defended in London in 1944 the action of her countrymen in shaving the heads of French...
German bombs seen bursting in the water and on Manoel Island, the British submarine base on Malta 1942. [img]
The idea of producing a German 128-mm (5.04-in) anti-aircraft gun was first mooted in 1936 when Rheinmetall was requested to produce a design...
The widely acknowledged success of the 40-mm Bofors gun has tended to overshadow the fact that the Swedish company of Bofors also made a larger...
During the D-Day operation, Canadian officers in Courselles-sur-Mer study a captured German model of the beaches. [img]
The MG34 machine gun, commonly known in the West as the Spandau, was the section automatic weapon with which the German forces entered World War...
Named in the West after the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, this weapon is now more widely known as a petrol bomb. It consisted of a...
The Germans had pioneered the use of flame-throwers in World War One at Verdun. The models deployed in the early days of World War One had in fact...
The 8cm (3.1 in) Schwere Granatwerfer 34, the medium mortar deployed by the German Amy, entered service in 1934 and was still in use in 1945. It...
Andrey Khozyaynov, a sailor serving in the Naval Infantry Brigade, who was the only survivor of the battle for the Grain Elevator, lived to write...