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...
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...
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...
Friedrich von Paulus was born in Breitenau, Melsungen District, on 23 September 1890. His family was not aristocratic and the title 'von' was only...
Georgy Zhukov, who would become one of the finest leaders of the Soviet Army, had modest beginnings. Born near Moscow of peasant stock like many...
Rifleman Ganju Lama MM, 7th Gurkha Rifles, Burma - 23rd June 1944 "...the enemy put down an intense artillery barrage lasting an hour on our...
Germans retreating through Northern Italy, late in 1944, made increasingly desperate attempts to delay the Allied advance with mines and...
Born at Gross-Kauen in Silesia on 10 March 1892, Karl Arndt began his military career as a private in 1908. He fought in the 1914-18 war in...
When Britain’s fortunes were at its lowest ebb in 1940, when the Army had returned almost weapon less from Dunkirk and the full fury of Hitler’s...
A dramatic Return of the Canadians to Dieppe, on the Channel coast of Northern France, on September 1st 1944 when they captured the town without...
There ws at least one German "who' could vouch for the accuracy of the guns of the cruiser H.M.S. Arethusa during the bombardment of Normandy....
Valentine Scorpion III, 22nd Dragoons, 79th Armoured Division, Suffolk, January 1944 Events moved so fast once the mine-clearing flail tank was...
Flying the White Ensign of the Royal Navy, landing craft of manifold types made possible victorious advances from the sea; the climax of their...
A small incident on the last day of the fighting on Betio cost First Sergeant Lewis J. Michelony, Jr. his sense of smell. Michelony, a member of...
Lieutenant (temporary Captain) The Lord Lyell (57781), Scots Guards (Kirriemuir, Angus) From the 22nd April, 1943, to 27th April, 1943, Captain...
17 pdr Anti-Tank Gun guarding the Nijmegen Bridge. These large towed guns were not as satisfactory as the SP version for the quick actions...
Before the introduction of the standard {Einheit) vehicles, the German army made extensive use of commercial cars as a means of motorizing the...
A machine gun post in a front line trench during the retreat to the Siegfried Line, February 1917. As German infantry companies received more...
Werner Pluskat was a German Major who died in 1996, commander of the 352nd Artillery of the German 352nd Infantry Division during Allied invasion...
Platoon sergeant James W. Collins was one of five thousand Americans in Stalag III-B, a prisoner-of-war camp near Frankfurt, in western Germany....