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 ...
1941: Poets at the front – Greek soldiers write short poems on the back of photos WW2, WW2 in Greece 1940-41 – The forgotten heroes: The Greek cemeteries in Albania Interviews, WW2, WW2 in Greece Echoes of the past: The forgotten battlefields of the Greek Civil War, 1946-49 WW2,...
How many died at Okinawa? Though estimations vary, it is believed about 12,500 Americans died at Okinawa. On the Japanese side, roughly 80,000 soldiers and another 150,000 civilians died. What Was the Battle of Okinawa? TheBattle of Okinawawas fought for the island of the same name, whic...
a greater part of Germany and/or Austria could have become Soviet controlled. This is not to diminish the sacrifice of so many Allied soldiers, who bravely fought in Europe. But Germany was already well on its way to defeat at this point; the Soviet operation, Bagration, had just destroyed...
Kingdom of Denmark (1928-1929) Light Tank – 1 Purchased As a neutral bystander, the Danish Army had no hands-on experience with the introduction of the tank on the battlefields in the First World War. This did not mean that the new weapon was ignored in Denmark. However, post-war ...
Mary's Hospital, London, England, United Kingdom which was caring for wounded soldiers, killing two nurses and five patients. Nurse Agatha Joan Credland was buried in an unmarked grave in her home village of Sturton by Stow. Seventy-six years after her death the local historical society ...
If you have a look at the picture above you have the „essential message“ at a glance: a group of captured Wehrmacht soldiers and a young US Soldier at about the same age. The Germans are truly glad that they are still alive and the war is over for them. You can directly see the...
I’m hoping that the same thing might have happened to those British Libyan Jews mentioned on the plaque. Saved by Italian soldiers acting with conscience. The Girl Who Escaped:https://geni.us/B0BYC1V9NHcover Share this: The Forgotten Palace by Alexandra Walsh ...
As the planners anxiously awaited the start of the land war in Northwest Africa, the United States wasalreadyfighting a land war in the Pacific. American soldiers had fought, died, and lost at Bataan. American Marines had fought, died, and lost at Wake Island. Even as most Americans were ...
In total approximately 1655 Native Military Corps members died during World War 2, read that again – One Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty Five ‘Black’ South African soldiers died during World War 2. That’s almost three times the number who died on the SS Mendi during World War 1, and ...