The PzKpfw IV Ausf G incorporated thicker armour than earlier Mark IV variants, and the 75 mm U43 anti-tank gun arming it enabled the Mark IV to...
Caterpillar Tractors were capable of a greater variety of war front tasks than any other single piece of mechanism. In the foreground a bulldozer...
SdKfz 184 Panzerjager Tiger (P) Elefant With the cancellation of Porsche's Tiger tank in favour of the Henschel design, 90 available chassis...
The Atlantic Wall was subject of many an article and the Todt Organisation was endowed with a highly active propaganda service which provided a...
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 gun that was to become one of the most famous of all British artillery pieces had its origins in operational analysis after World War I that...
A PIAT anti-tank team at Lembeck, Germany, 29 March 1945. On the sergeant's battledress can be seen the battalion's distinctive gold-yellow...
Nicknamed the 'Houseowner' by his comrades, Sergeant Jacob Pavlov, Hero of the Soviet Union and pre-war accountant, held a battered four-storey...
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...
A Russian girl welds steel girders to construct a 'Czech hedgehog' anti-tank obstacle. The Soviet Union mobilized not only women but even boys who...
On Britain's huge Glider aircraft the Hamilcar, which the Germans believed to be a troop carrier depended much of the success of the Allied...
"Except possibly for a few last shots, the Battle of London is over," declared Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P. Chairman of the War Cabinet Committee on...
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...
During my first few weeks in the army we were given various aptitude tests and it was discovered that I had an affinity for reading Morse code for...
Notes from my Diaries Wednesday 2nd. May 1945 Jerry threw his hand in Italy and Austria. Fired all our 2" mortars, phosphorous bombs and verey...
Much well merited praise was often bestowed on the fine output of the Army film and Photographic unit and that of the official photographers...
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...
The Mark 14 torpedo was the primary torpedo type used by all but the S Class boats during the war. Early problems with the exploder and depth...