Kingdom of Sweden (1933-1945) Armored Car – 18 Built Lithuania (1933-1940) 6 Purchased Soviet Union (1940-1941) 6 Captured Kingdom of the Netherlands (1934-1940) 12 Purchased German Reich (1940-1945) 12 Captured The Swedish Landsverk series of armored cars from the Interwar period were ...
2nd Marine Division HQ Battalion 2nd Marine Regiment 6th Marine Regiment 8th Marine Regiment 10th Marine Regiment 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion 2nd Tank Battalion 3rd Marine Division Headquarters Battalion 3rd...
USS Augusta delivered 50 Marines and 57 Navy personnel to reinforce the US 4th Marine Regiment stationed at Shanghai, China. [Augusta | Shanghai | CPC] Liu Cuigang flew his first combat mission of the Second Sino-Japanese War, attacking Japanese warships at the mouth of the Yangtze River in...
Sergeant Jack Hinton of New Zealand 2nd Division received the Victoria Cross from King George VI at the Buckingham Palace in London, England, United Kingdom for bravery exhibited while fighting in Kalamata, Greece on 28 Apr 1941. [London, England | CPC]13...
This vehicle belonged to a Cavalry division which took part in the attack of Harbin, 1932.⏯︎ Type 94 TK tankette, early model, Hebei Province, China, 1935. Type 94 TK tankette of the IJN Marine forces, Shanghai, 1937. Early version Type 94 TK tankette, Nomonhan plateau, August ...
-2nd sea Patrol Division (Hai Lung, Hai Feng, Li Sui, Lin Chi) -3rd sea Patrol Division (Kuan Ning, Kuan Ching, Chian Tung) -4th sea Patrol Division (Hai Kuang, Hai Jui, Hai Jung, Hai Hua) -5th sea Patrol Division (Daichii, Kaihen, Kaini, Ta Tung, Li Ming) Manchukuo Riverine ...
Feuchtinger’s division had no Mark V Panther battalion, being wholly reliant upon Mark IVs, but possessed more than a hundred of the latter. Additional assets included an assault gun battalion and antitank battalion with towed 88 mm guns. Personnel had reached nearly full strength, with 16,30...
It was to go to the Azores and transferred to the 102nd Royal Marine Brigade on May 4th, 1941 with the 2nd Battalion Royal Marine. It embarked at Hamilton on May 9th with the 2nd Royal Marines and was to be used in the Canary Islands with the Royal Marine Division and the 29th Infant...
still an excellent anti-tank gun in 1940, but was not distributed in large numbers. Each Italian infantry division had only eightCannoni da 47/32. For comparison, a German infantry division in 1939 had 72PaK 3637 mm anti-tank guns, while a British one had 48 Ordnance QF 2-pounder guns...
This vehicle was operated by the 245th Heavy Tank Battalion of the 45th Infantry Division. Illustration of the Marine Corps’ improvised Mine Flail, built on the hull of a salvaged M4A2 Dozer, using a truck axle and a salvaged transmission from a jeep. Illustration by Tank Encyclopedia’s ...