Crete was invaded on May 20, 1941, that might be pushed back to May 25th. The Battle of Crete would be ending about June 3rd or 4th. The extra troops came from North Africa, the same place as the rest of the support Britain sent. They don't turn the campaign around or anything,...
Journal of Slavic Military StudiesGanzer, Christian. "German and Soviet Losses as an Indicator of the Length and Intensity of the Battle for the Brest Fortress (1941)." The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 27, no. 3 (2014): 449-466....
Soviet Union (1941) Tractor Tank – 70-90 Built A necessity The tests done between 1930-1932 by the Red Army to create a fighting vehicle based on tractors were totally unsuccessful, so the appearance of the KhTZ-16 was a sign of sheer desperation by the USSR. In 1941, as a ...
While it is true that a disproportional number of Lithuania’s Jews had collaborated with Soviet communist occupational authorities in 1940-1941 and some have also participated in the massacres of Lithuanians, Nazi German actions could not be anyhow explained simply by “bringing to the justice tho...
Moreover, Kenez makes the questionable assertion that [End Page 111] after the battle of Moscow, Hitler's defeat "was only a question of time" (p. 141). Who really believed this in December 1941? The claim that in the Brezhnev era "the Soviet Union achieved its greatest international ...
The editors have selected for publication at this time all documents essential to an understanding of the political relations between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from the first efforts to reach an agreement in the spring of 1939 to the outbreak of war in June 1941. The larger publication...
The victory over Axis forces by the Red Army during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942-1943 is considered one of the major turning points of World War Two. General Vasily Chuikov and the men of the 62nd Army, supported by General Alexander Rodimtsev's 13th Guards Division, were trapped insid...
The new defensive plan, instead of repelling the enemy at the borders, called for fighting a delaying action along the border and withdrawing to prepared defenses in southeastern Manchuria for a final defensive battle in which the Soviets would be defeated. This plan was based on some faulty ...
Another possibility is that it was moved to another storage facility where it was eventually lost during the Axis Invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Specification The ANT-1 was designed as a cantilever low-wing monoplane aircraft of mixed construction. The fuselage consisted of four spruce ...
Nikita Khrushchev was involved in developing the most important military operations, while Leonid Brezhnev even had a chance to fight on the battlefield as a machine gunner.