The need for a small, fast scout tank in the Wehrmacht had long been overlooked. Light tanks and various armored cars had been pressed into this duty when needed. However an all new tank design was coming up, one that would defeat the heavily armored Soviet tanks such as the T-34 ...
Navy 365. In US reports, this ship is identified as an ex-Norwegian Sleipner-class destroyer. US reports state that it was heavily strafed. SteamshipVaagensunk after being hit by bomb. SteamshipTopekaburning after being hit by 3 bombs and grounded. ...
Oppenheimer later remarked that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." In August 1945, the weapons were used in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war ended, Oppenheimer became chairman of the influential ...
The assault gun based on thePanzer IVchassis, until now called tank destroyer by the inspector general, is also to be called an "assault gun" and not tank destroyer. As long as there are no principal Führer decisions through the Chief of the Army General Staff for the naming of army wea...
[Photo] Damaged SdKfz 6/3 Diana self-propelled gun of German 605th Tank Destroyer Division, near El Alamein, Egypt, circa early Aug 1942 | World War II Database
Klaus Wennemann. A film by Wolfgang Peterson. It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so-called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-boats have begun to take heavy losses....
The only exceptions to straight alphabetical order are a limited number of phrases which the reader would be unlikely to look for under the first word of the phrase. Thus, in Feuerstellung appears under Feuerstellung, not under in. Among various equivalents for a given term, synonyms are ...