Case Blue was the German Offensive starting on 28th June 1942 to cut off and surround Soviet Armies in the Don Bend, capture vital oil supplies in...
During the 1930's one of several fundamental fighter debates concerned the Long-Range Escort. Generally assumed to be twin engined, and have a...
The Me 163 was designed by Alexander Martin Lippisch. It was the first military aircraft designed to use a rocket engine and it was the fastest...
The Mustang was born out of an RAF requirement for more Curtiss P-40's (Called Tomahawk in RAF service then Kittyhawk with various Commonwealth...
Marc Bloch was born in Lyons, France in 1886. He studied history in Paris, Leipzig and Berlin. After graduating he taught at Montpellier and...
Polish born Arthur Szyk attended art school in Paris and studied Islamic art in the middle east before enlisting in the Russian Army in 1914. He...
So good was the Bf 109 considered in 1937 that many experts in Germany thought there was no need to consider a successor. A successor was however...
The Russians were slow to realise the need for Self Propelled Mobile Artillery & Assault Guns. During Operation Uranus, the Russian Counter Attack...
The IS series of Heavy Tanks were a direct development of the KV series, after the early KV's were critised by their crews for poor Mobility. By...
The KV series of tanks were a result of extensive design competitions in the mid to late 1930's. The T-35 with 2 Turrets was finally revised to a...
The SVT series of Rifles. SVT stands for - Samozaryadnaya Vintovka Tokareva - Tokarev Semi-Automatic Rifle. About 1.6 million SVT's were produced...
Perhaps not as well known or as fast as it's Yak & Mig rivals the Lavochkin series of Piston Engined Single Seat Fighters none the less earned a...
The MP 40 was the most widely used Sub-Machine gun in the early war years by the Wehrmacht & SS units. Able to fire single shots or multiple round...
On October 5, 1942, by accident, Hermann Graebe, a German engineer and manager of a German construction firm in the Ukraine, and his foreman, came...
Filled with surprises as it has been, the war has provided no stranger, indeed amazing, occurrence than the arrival in Scotland of Rudolf Hess,...
Called up with the "twenties" in November 1939 and sent to the Western Front in the following spring, Sapper John Garbett had a remarkable series...
Every day, Wehrmacht commanders in the field sent reports back to base. Their dispatches included details as mundane as the weather - and as...
The British Army The British formations that led the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944 were well trained, well equipped, well supported and...
The two armies that faced each other across the beaches in the early hours of 6 June 1944 were vastly different in almost every way. One was very...
With huge apologies to www.pegasusarchive.org , Also it's long but what could I have left out ? [IMG] Lieutenant Richard Andrew...