SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Ludwig Kepplinger Ludwig Kepplinger, an Austrian, was born in Linz in December 1911 and originally served with the Austrian...
Hauptmann Karl-Lothar Schulz Schulz was born in Konigsberg, East Prussia, on 30 April 1907. He joined the Army on leaving school and briefly...
Taken from the Military intelligence service war department Washington, U.S Army Military History Institute 15th June 1943. Please see...
Escaping troops from German seventh army and fifth panzer armies are caught by rocket-firing typhoon aircraft in a narrow lane east of the river...
MaJ Gen Maczek had brought his Polish 1st Armoured Division up onto the heights above Coudehard when he swung his advance eastwards around Trun on...
Columns of enemy transport heading eastwards to escape from the Allied encirclement. These long lines of vehicles became constant targets for...
[img] Operation "Neptune/Overlord" were the code names for the 6 June 1 944 D-Day Landings on the Normandy coast of German-occupied France....
The British Ordnance QF 17 Pounder Gun was considered the best Allied Anti-Tank Gun of WW2. Using APDS Ammunition it could take on and defeat any...
The Churchill was the earliest British Heavy Tank. It was a modified version of the A20 which had Side Sponsons, much like the WWI Tanks. However...
After the failings of the A15 Crusader, a new Cruiser Tank was needed to give British Armoured Units better Mobility and Firepower on the...
The Russians were slow to realise the need for Self Propelled Mobile Artillery & Assault Guns. During Operation Uranus, the Russian Counter Attack...
The Katyusha Rocket Launcher was used extensively throughout WW2 by the Red Army. Russian Soldiers coined the Nickname after a song "Katyusha" and...
At the start of WW2 Japan had amassed the biggest Carrier Fleet of any of the Combatant Nations. She could boast 6 Large & 4 Smaller Carriers with...
[IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] This is one of things I found in among my fathers things when he died. Dad was a Staff Sergeant in the...
War44.com has been given permission from Sapper Brian Guy to use in parts facts taken from the book “Cameos of War” that he wrote regarding his...
Let me first start by thanking Walter for sending me by email his personal story of the days leading up to and including D-Day thru to the VE Day....
IT was the longest and hardest won campaign of the Second World War. Now, more than 60 years after the end of bloody Battle of the Atlantic, the...
On June 10, 1944, a Nazi SS Division (Das Reich) surrounded the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in France then ordered everyone in the town, 652...
The invasion of France on June 6, 1944 was a triumph of intelligence, coordination, secrecy, and planning. The bold attack was also a tremendous...