WW2 US Light Tanks Combat Car M1 and M1A1 (Light Tank M1A2) 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 ...
Portrait of Rear Admiral Chester Nimitz, circa 1940-1941 Romanian soldiers marching through Constanta, Romania, circa 1941 US Navy Aviation Machinist's Mate polishing the propeller of a SOC Seagull floatplane at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, United States, circa 1940-41 US Soldier in a ...
German Reich (1936-1938) Light Tank – 4 Prototypes Built + 1 Incomplete Prototype After World War I, senior tank companies, such as Renault and Vickers-Armstrong, began selling tanks and other military materiel to smaller countries that could not afford their own tank production. Seeing this,...
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Yanks call her “Kate Smith” and “Ma”; Poles have named her the “South African Nightingale”; and to Britishers she is the “Soldier’s Sweetheart” and the “Lady in White.” The ship’s Captain “usually stands on the bridge and salute her as the ship glides by. Czechs and ...
Generalleutnant Dietrich Kraiss’s 352d Division defended the Omaha Beach area. Kraiss was an experienced combat soldier; he had been a company commander in World War I and had led a division into Russia in 1941. The 352d had been formed at Hanover in November 1943 from veterans of three ...
An American Red Cross worker lights a cigarette for a wounded French soldier on the Receiving Ward. Rennes: Most of us will not forget the ride down the Cotentin peninsula to our first setup at Rennes. We were excited, naturally, at the prospect of putting into practice the training we had...
The irony was that not a single Japanese soldier was on the island, all having been evacuated before the invasion began. Four of the American dead were killed by stepping on land mines left behind by the Japanese.*MONASTERY BLUNDER.OnFebruary 15, 1944, US bombers dropped 427 tons of bombs...
Raymond Fagen is depicted as the lead soldier departing the landing craft. A total of 160,000 Allied troops were part of this huge assault. The sand used in the display was transported from Normandy to Granite Falls. The museum featuers a P-51 Mustang(shown), Lockheed P-38 Lightning, ...
“Because of his miraculous throat construction, he was able to create a rhapsody of hysteria. In time, he became the living unknown soldier of Germany.” Hanfstaengl introduced himself to Hitler after the speech and began a close friendship and political association that would last through the...