The Type 95 light tank was developed to meet the requirements of the Japanese army in the early 1930s, the first two prototypes being completed in...
In 1937 the prototype of the Carro Armato M 11/39 tank was built, with the suspension system of the L3 tankette but with six road wheels on each...
In the 1930s Fiat Ansaldo built an export tank based on the chassis of the L3 tankette, itself a development of the British Garden Lloyd Mark VI...
In 1941 the most powerful tank m service with the German army was the PzKpfw IV, infrequently a match for the new Soviet T-34 tank, which appeared...
A M25 Tank Transporter had been designed as a transporter/recovery unit for the 12th Armoured Division. Here the 134th Ordnance, tows a M4 Sherman...
During World War I the standard British service revolver was one variant or other of the Webley 0.455-in (11.56mm) pistol. These were very...
Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Heavy Tank As far back as 1938 it has been realized that the PzKpfw IV tank would have to be replaced by a more...
As darkness was falling at 22:56 hrs on 5th June 1944, six Horsa gliders were pulled airborne from the runway at Tarrant Rushton airfield in...
Excellent close-up footage of Shermans ambushed by German paras using panzershreck, panzerfaust and Goliath anti-tank weapons. 00Jcl0Wmlk0
After the United States entered World War I in 1917, among the various types of heavy artillery its army received once US troops arrived in France...
It was envisaged in the mid-1930s that each German tank battalion would have three companies of relatively light medium tanks and one company of...
In 1937 the international situation was rapidly deteriorating, so the Czech army issued a requirement for a new light tank This time the army was...
The Opal Blitz By the late 1930s the German military Inventory presented an enormous logistic problem with over 100 different vehicle types in...
To meet her urgent need for motor transport the UK turned to the Commonwealth for a degree of support, the major supplier to the UK from the...
This is one of the two models of tanks that where being used by the japanese during world war 2. It was actually a french lite tank called the...
I will post the link to a site dedicated to one of, if not THE, greatest Tank Commanders of all time. It will do Him the rightful justice that I...
This successful design was the basis for the SdKfz 251 medium armoured personnel carrier. Between 1937 and 1945 some 41,000 SdKfz 11 were built...
The unique weapon that allowed the airborne engineers to neutralise the casemates of Eben Emael were fifty-six 50kg (110lb) and 12.5kg (27.5lb)...
Born in Lille on November 22, 1 890, de Gaulle graduated with distinction from St Cyr Military Academy. He was commissioned into the 33rd Infantry...
During the occupation over 5,000 Dutchmen joined the Waffen - SS, serving in the Panzergrenadier Division "Nederland", and a further 54,000...