Welcome geoffleese! to war44 forums please introduce yourself by telling us where you are from, your interests in WWII or just History and how you...
This is a special version of the T-34 Model 1943 converted to a propaganda vehicle and equipped for psychological warfare with loudspeakers in...
Both the 12-ton Sd.Kfz. 8 half-track (at right) and the 8.8cm Flak 36 it is towing are camouflaged with a dark yellow pattern over dark grey. They...
The first 3-in (76,2-mm) mortar was the original Stokes Mortar that was first used in March 1917. This version remained in use for many years...
Once in widespread service the SdKfz 222 proved to be a reliable and popular little vehicle. It served well in France during 1940, often racing...
Welcome raine9471! to war44 forums please introduce yourself by telling us where you are from, your interests in WWII or just History and how you...
One of the most famous military cars of World War 2 was the Volkswagen Kubel, the German Jeep, During 1933 Hitler had instructed two car designers...
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 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...
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...
D-Day: Interview with Two U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion Members Who Describe the Attack at Pointe-du-Hoc U.S. Army General Omar Bradley described...
A total of 928 of the 6 x 4 SdKfz 231 had been built before production ceased in 1936 in favour of 8 x 8 versions. The new armoured car retained...
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...
T-34/76 Model 1943. 41st Guards Tank Brigade, 7th Mechanized Corps, Kursk, 1943. This vehicle and the rest of the brigade's tanks were marked with...
PzKpfw IV Ausf. A, unit unknown; Poland September 1939 One of only 35 examples of this initial version to be built, this tank is finished...
The Deed. He was 35 years old, and a Temporary Major in The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, British Army, attd. The South Staffordshire...
My Grandmother lived in London. She was 13 when war broke out, and quickly found herself sent of to Kent all summer to pick Hops and other crops,...
I do not know if this belongs here but I think it could qualify under an atrocity. Anyways the Russians in WWII used to train dogs to be a...