During the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal, becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad. Owens commented that Adolf Hitler, although biased against people of African descent, rose and waved at him as he paraded with other med...
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Davies and fellow sapper George Wylie were awarded the George Cross medals. [London, England | CPC]13 Sep 1940 United Kingdom Peter Roderick became the first baby to be born in an air-raid shelter at the height of a German air raid on London, England, United Kingdom. His sister, ...
Awards Ceremony at Hannut, Belgium, 2 January 1945. Brigadier General John A. Rogers, Surgeon, First United States Army, awarded a number of Bronze Star Medals to several members of the 5th Evacuation Hospital. The noise of battle gradually receded with the passing of each day. The days wer...
So far 165 patients received the “Purple Heart”after recommendation of their Officers. More PH medals were requisitioned for other battle casualties being treated at the 28th General Hospital. The ceremony of bestowal was always carried out in a simple but impressive way by the Hospital’s Comm...
Kingdom of Italy The IV Battaglione Carri M13/40 (English: 4th M13/40 Tank Battalion) was the only Italian unit equipped with Carri Armati M13/40 (English: M13/40 tanks) that fought in the Balkans during the Second World War. Although deployed in a different theater of operation compared...
Soviet Union (1939) Heavy Tank – 5,219 Built Heavy tank and “deep battle” concepts in the USSR The concept of “deep battle”, which contained the doctrinal use of the Soviet heavy tank, was first theorized during the late twenties, then refined and eventually adopted by the Red Army ...
The crew of the submarine Lembit awarded medals for the defense of Leningrad on 6 June 1943. Ships nomenclature: Destroyers class Lennuk A Novik class destroyer -Lennuk and Wambola, formerly Avtoil and Spartak, of the Novik class, launched 1917. 1,350 tons in displacement, fast and powerful...
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