The miles drifted by almost unnoticed as they relived their youthful memories of wartime... for she had also served her country in the WAAF, including some time at RAF Charterhall, near Kelso, in the Scottish Borders. Unbeknown to them all, a young business woman, sitting nearby, overhear...
Harrow in northwest London, England, United Kingdom received a German bomb at 0330 hours, the first to fall within the borders of the London Civil Defence Area. After daybreak, bad weather once again prevented large German raids. At 0900 hours, German 38-centimeter guns at Cape Gris Nez, ...
During the interwar, it was made of a relatively modern fleet inherited from the 1932 naval plan, and in addition to a large coast defence ship purchased in 1924 to Brazil, the Mexican feet was reinforced by three destroyer-size patrol sloops (Spanish built), two gunboat-transports (also Sp...
German Reich (1938-1945) Armored Car – 14 to 34 Captured In modern days, misconceptions about the Second World War are rife, such as the one claiming that the Germans employed armored vehicles in large quantities, being heavily motorized and mechanized. The reality of the war was quite ...
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 ...
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France (1931-1940) Anti-tank Gun – Multiple Prototypes and 15 Pre-production Guns Built The French Army started to experiment with armor-piercing weapons as early as the Great War. During the German offensive of 1914, a vastly overestimated armored car scare led to the French army mobilizing...
It had modern torsion bar suspensions, completely revised welded steel armor, improved protection and, more importantly, a much more potent lightweight… Continue reading Light Tank M24 Chaffee Light Tank M5 Stuart United States of America (1942) Light Tank – About 8,884 Built Origins: The ...
WW2 Czechoslovakian tanks and armored cars, from the early 1920s to 1939 and the German annexation of Czechoslovakia.