Ten ships were delivered beginning with Empire MacAlpine in April 1943, but the four ex-tankers had no hangar deck. Mostly flying Swordfish, the Empires often carried cargo in addition to the small FAA “air party.”HMS Audacity: The Royal Navy’s Jack-of-all-Ships...
As a U-boat captain of the Kriegsmarine – the German navy – your job is to stalk the shadows of the deep, seeking out Allied warships and merchant navy convoys, and hunting them to extinction. This is not just an action-focused, twin-stick controlled, ‘World of Submarines’ ...
Winston Churchill told American Ambassador to the United Kingdom Joseph Kennedy that even if Britain was to be conquered by Germany, the British government would continue the fight from Canada with the Royal Navy. [Winston Churchill | London, England | CPC]15...
The country also had a Navy: Two minesweepers and four motor boats. Only the later were in service when the war broke out. The “navy” of the small Kingdom of the Adriatic had distant roots, located north of the Epirots and ancient Molossians, and their distant ancestors were the Illy...
Japan (1941-1945) Armored Carrier – Around 200 Built (Estimated) The Type 1 Ho-Ki Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) was developed by the Imperial Japanese Army between 1941 and 1942, although it saw mass production later on, in 1944. This vehicle was designed by Hino Heavy Industries along ...
The Royal Greek Navy ship “Aris” – Lazarettschiff “Graz”, by Vincenzo Giacomo Toccafondi WW2, WW2 in Greece, WW2 Wrecks Brian Bateman: Aviation Art at its best Interviews The demonstration in Athens, on July 22nd 1943, which turned into a slaughter of unarmed civilians WW2 in Greece...
German Reich (1943) Self-Propelled Gun Battery – None Built This vehicle, known only from a single blueprint, is possibly one of the strangest tracked war machines ever designed. German blueprint HSK 3485, dated 15 June 1943, named Project “NM”, shows a monstrous and ungainly vehicle ...
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German and Italy signed two secret military agreements with Japan in Berlin, Germany, one with the Japanese Army and the other with the Japanese Navy. The two agreement divided the world into two operational zones along the 70th meridian east longitude line, the west of which would be under ...
A year later a bronze plaque donated by men of the Royal Navy was erected to her memory on Durban’s North Pier on the spot where she used to sing. It read: To the Memory of Perla Gibson “The Lady in White” who sang to countless thousands of British Commonwealth and Allied Service...