On Friday September first 1939, I and many hundreds of children were assembled at Napier Rd School in East Ham and marched along the High Street...
The Red Army used two types of antitank rifle during World War II, both of them very distinctive for they were long and powerful rifles that both...
At the outbreak of war, Éire was still a member of the then British Commonwealth but chose to remain neutral, the only such member state to do so....
Born in Gandersheim on 8 March 1897, Herbert Otto Gille entered the Imperial Army as a cadet. He served in Baden Feldartillerie Regiment Nr 30...
The 15-cm (5.9-in) German artillery rockets were the mainstay of the large number of German army Nebelwerfer (literally smoke-throwing) units,...
Designed to provide a higher rate of fire than an earlier design, the 2cm Flak 38 proved to be a mainstay of the German light anti-aircraft...
Wreckage in Cloister Court caused by bombs which hit the Houses of Parliament during a twelve-hour raid on the capital by 413 aircraft in December...
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...
Before the introduction of the standard {Einheit) vehicles, the German army made extensive use of commercial cars as a means of motorizing the...
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...
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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...
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...
German light trucks German light trucks before the outbreak of World War 11 were of commercial 4x2 design with only superstructure details to...
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...