(1940-1945) When speaking of Italian armor during the Second World War, it is important to analyze the training that Italian tank crew members received before being assigned to frontline units. Although the Italian war industry was unable to keep up with the production capabilities of the Allied...
The Four Power Commission of Prosecutors in London, England, United Kingdom presented the first list of German war criminals to be tried at Nürnberg, Germany. [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | London, England | CPC]5
United States of America (1937) Light Tank – 89 Built In the years prior to the Second World War, the US was in the process of forming its first armored formations. Their tank-producing industry was greatly hampered by a lack of funds, the US’ isolationist policy, the lack of ...
in which over 16 million people died. By way of comparison, far more lives were lost in the Second World War than in the First (more than 60 million. Moving beyond soldier deaths, the total number of both civilian and military casualties during World War One is estimated...
to have either been built in significant numbers or made a significant impact on the conflict. Very late-war tanks such as theM26 PershingandA34 Cometarrived too late to make much of a difference or to be included here. To keep things fair, dedicated tank destroyers are for another list. ...
Thanks to you Bill, I now know more than I could have imagined; details of the crash, his temporary interment in Europe, and a complete list of all his personal belongings. There are even handwritten letters from my Grandmother to the US Army pertaining to my uncles personal belongings to...
Because information was strictly censored, exact numbers of casualties remains a unknown. Communist authorities forged death certificates and families of victims were forced to bury their dead at night, with communist militia guarding them so that nobody found out what happened. ...
Unfortunately, the rear gunners did not have the benefit of all-around armor protection and suffered about four times more casualties than the pilots. Added casualties resulted from the Soviet policy of not returning home with unused ammunition which typically resulted in repeated passes on the ...
Republic of Poland (1933) Light tank – 1 Converted The large number of Renault FT tanks owned by the Polish Army in the Interwar period motivated work on modernizing them, as they were becoming increasingly obsolete in the 1930s. One such attempt was to replace the Renault FT’s suspension...
Soviet Union (1941) Improvised Armored Vehicles – Estimated 100 Built It is hard to stress how dire the situation was for the Red Army in the summer of 1941. In as little as two months, 10,000 tanks had been lost to the German Army and her allies. Therefore, factories across...