Explore iconic German WWII weapons like the MP40, StG 44 assault rifle, and MG42 machine gun. Learn their specs, impact, and legacy at Thunder Guns West. World War II witnessed […]
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The German 88 mm Flak gun as the best anti-tank gun of World War II. History, development, service, specifications, statistics and pictures. Here to Part I: 88 mm Flak 18,36,37.
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Explore iconic WWII ammunition and weapons that changed warfare forever. From M1 Garand to Karabiner 98k – discover their design, impact, and lasting legacy. World War II marked a revolutionary
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Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 4 – 6 (4 SS-Polizei-Panzer-Grenadier-Division, 5 SS-Panzer-Division Wiking (W), 6 SS-Gebirgs-Division Nord). Waffen-SS divisions Polizei, Wiking, Nord Overview Divisions 4 to 6 were part of
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Soviet light battle tank T-70 built 1942-43 during Second World War. History, development, service, specifications, statistics, pictures and 3D model. Soviet light tank T-70 T-70 Type: Russian light battle tank.
Obsolete British armoured vehicles from the interwar years: Mark II battle tank, Carden-Loyd Mark VI armoured personnel carrier, Lanchester armoured car. Between the world wars, British armored vehicles played a
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The uniforms of the Germany Army in World War One from 1914 to 1918. Uniforms of the infantry 1914/15 and 1916-18, mountain troops and Jaegers, Bavarian soldiers, Landsturm and cavalry,
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First US jet fighter Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star from World War II. History, development, service, specifications, pictures and 3D model. Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. Type: US
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Bulgarian Armed Forces in the Second World War. Organization and divisions of the army, tank strength, air force and planes, navy. Bulgarian Armed Forces in World War II During World
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Battle of Kamenets-Podolsky in western Ukraine, March-April 1944. The exemplary breakout of the German 1st Panzer Army (General Hube) from the pocket according to the plan of Field Marshal Manstein.
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Operation Merkur (Mercury), the ‘Battle of Crete’. German Plan of Attack and assault troops, deployed forces, intelligence, the fighting and losses on Crete. The German airborne invasion of Crete in
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The arming of the German Volkssturm (People’s Storm, the equivalent of the British Home Guard) in the last war phase. Volkssturm rifle VG-1, VG-2, Volkssturm carbine VG-45, MP 3008. Arming
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British attacks on the French fleet in 1940: strategic decisions and lasting effects. The raid on Mers El Kebir In July 1940, British forces launched attacks on the French Navy
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Late models of the long-range escort fighter and fighter-bomber Thunderbolt (beginning with P-47D-25). History, development, service, specifications, statistics, pictures and 3D model. Late Models Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
Uniforms of the Red Army in World War II. Different types of uniforms and for airborne troops, NKVD, and Political Commissars. Insignia and badges of ranks for the period from
Holocaust, the ‘Final Solution to the Jewish Question’. Wannsee Conference, Gas for Mass Murder, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and Hitler’s Role in the Holocaust. Here to the previous part: Final Solution
T-34 Model 1943 with 76.2-mm-gun F-34. History, development, service, specifications, statistics, pictures, video and 3D model of the Soviet medium battle tank. Soviet medium tank T-34 model 1943 T-34 Model
Baltic volunteers with the German Army in the Second World War. Service of inhabitants of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS. On 22 June 1941 the Red
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Jagdpanther (SdKfz 173, tank destroyer for 8.8-cm PaK 43 on Panther chassis), probably the best German tank destroyer of the Second World War. Jagdpanther (SdKfz 173) Heavy tank destroyer (tank
Tanks used by German occupation forces in the Balkans during World War II. Tanks of the German occupation forces in the Balkans During World War II, German occupation forces in
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