The sad fate of pilot officer Frederick Ainley and the RAF Martin Maryland that force-landed on Zakynthos island, Greece, March 29, 1941 Aircraft wrecks, WW2, WW2 in Greece, WW2 Wrecks A detailed look at “Faith”, the only surviving Gloster Gladiator from the Battle of Malta Photo gallery...
”Malta is the unsinkable aircraft carrier”. Winston Churchill “Malta Command” is a Second World War living history or re-enactment group which aims to portray the life of men and women serving in the British Forces during the Battle of Malta in WW2and any other military units linked to ...
Kingdom of Italy (1940-At Least 1954) Medium Tank – 710 Built The Carro Armato M13/40 was an Italian medium tank used with mixed results by the Italian Regio Esercito (English: Royal Army) from 1940 to 1943 in North Africa, the Balkans, and the Italian peninsula. The tank was ...
One of the first German objectives was to knock out Allied anti-aircraft warfare. In all, 70 gliders, each carrying ten paratroopers would land in the first few hours of the battle, many along the dry Creek bed, west of the strategic Maleme airfield in the north west of the Island. The...
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The “Motozzattere”, the Italian Landing Crafts of WW2 byGiulio PoggiaroniMarch 28, 2024 In January 1942, when plans for the invasion of Malta (Operation C3) were beginning to… Articles The Battle of Crete and the Italian Participation ...
The result of this battle in the streambed was between 20-30 Soviet dead, for the cost of three wounded from Leipzig’s Zug. More importantly however the crisis in the German frontline in this area had been resolved by the bold counterattack of Leutnant Leipzig and his men. For this act ...
The British Mediterranean Fleet departed Alexandria, Egypt to escort a supply convoy to Malta. The fleet consisted of battleship HMS Warspite, battleship HMS Valiant, battleship HMS Malaya, battleship HMS Ramillies, aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, 12 cruisers, 16 destr...
Arthur Janser’s 500-ton Battleship and Grasshopper TanksA.11E1, Infantry Tank, Matilda Prototype United Kingdom (1934) Infantry Tank – 1 Prototype Built Of all the tanks in WW2 which may be derided or even mocked for being ‘ugly’ or useless, one which invariably makes the list is the...
Spitfire, the most widely produced and strategically important British single-seat fighter of World War II. The Spitfire, renowned for winning victory laurels in the Battle of Britain (1940–41) along with the Hawker Hurricane, served in every theatre of