Vickers Gun
British Vickers machine-gun from both World Wars. History, development, service, specifications and pictures of the heavy Vickers gun. Vickers Gun Type: heavy machine-gun. History Great Britain was among the first […]
Diary May 7, 1915
Diary for Friday, May 7, 1915: Sea War Irish Sea: Unescorted unarmed British Cunard liner LUSITANIA (32,000t) SUNK in 20 minutes, torpedoed from 765 yards (0.7 km) without warning off
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Diary May 7, 1940
Diary for Tuesday, May 7, 1940: Home Fronts Britain: NORWAY DEBATE begins in House of Commons. Chamberlain defends Conservative Governments strategy. He comes under fierce attack from Admiral Keyes and
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Diary May 7, 1945
Diary for Monday, May 7, 1945: Politics UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER OF GERMANY. General JodI signs instrument of surrender at 2.41 am in schoolroom at Rheims. Western Front Allied forces occupy Emden
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Airco DH2
British first true single-seat fighting scout Airco de Havilland 2. History, development, service, specifications, statistics, pictures, and model. First British true fighter plane Airco DH2 Airco DH2 Type: single-seat fighting
Diary May 6, 1915
Diary for Thursday, May 6, 1915: Eastern Front Galicia: Austrian Fourth Army occupies Tarnow, takes 30,000 PoWs until May 8. Carpathians: Kornilov and 48th Division cut off, surrender to Austrians.
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Diary May 6, 1940
Diary for Monday, May 6, 1940: Norway Norwegian troops fight back in Roeros-Stoeren sector (eastern central Norway). Norwegian gold reserve (£33 millions) safe in London. Secret War The Pope tells
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Diary May 6, 1945
Diary for Sunday, May 6, 1945: Burma British 14th Army links up with ‘Dracula’ forces, north of Rangoon. Western Front Czechoslovakia: Patton occupies Skoda Works. Occupied countries Czechoslovakia: 3 Waffen-SS
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Mauser C/96
First self-loading pistol German Mauser Automatic C/96 (built 1896-1938) used in both World Wars. History, development, service, specifications and pictures. German Automatic postol Mauser C/96 Mauser C/96 Type: Automatic pistol.
Diary May 5, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, May 5, 1915: Southern Fronts Austro-Italian frontier: Cadorna learns that Italy committed to war by May 26. Austrian COS Conrad changes his mind, now accepts that ‘war
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Diary May 5, 1940
Diary for Sunday, May 5, 1940: Norway French Foreign Legionnaires and Polish troops land at Harstad (near Narvik) and Tromso (north of Narvik). Secret War Captain Hermann Goertz, of the
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Diary May 5, 1945
Diary for Saturday, May 5, 1945: Occupied countries Czechoslovakia – The Prague Rising: Resistance attack on radio station sparks off general uprising, directed by Czech National Committee. Sea War Atlantic:
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Avro Manchester
British heavy strategic night bomber Avro Manchester of WW2. History, development, service, specifications, pictures and 3D model. RAF’s heavy strategic night bomber Avro Manchester Avro Manchester Type: RAF heavy strategic
Diary May 4, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, May 4, 1915: Western Front German GHO moves to Pless, Silesia. Artois: French bombardment by 1,073 guns (690,000 shells) and 92 mortars begins. Flanders – Ypres: Battle
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Diary May 4, 1940
Diary for Saturday, May 4, 1940: Norway British troops land at Mo, south of Narvik. Sea War Polish destroyer Grom bombed and sunk off Narvik. Secret War Papal Nuncio warns
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Diary May 4, 1945
Diary for Friday, May 4, 1945: Western Front SURRENDER OF ALL GERMAN FORCES IN NORTHWEST GERMANY, HOLLAND AND DENMARK to Field Marshal Montgomery at ceremony on Lüneberg Heath (surrender effective
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The Surrender of Nazi-Germany in May 1945
The capitulation of Germany in May 1945: the final collapse of Hitler’s Third Reich. May 7, 1945 marked one of the most significant moments in modern history—the day Nazi Germany
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Diary May 3, 1915
Diary for Monday, May 3, 1915: Politics ITALY DENOUNCES TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Western Front Artois: French preliminary bombardment begins. Germans expect offensive for next day. Eastern Front Galicia: 12-mile gap in
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Diary May 3, 1940
Diary for Friday, May 3, 1940: Norway Surrender of Norwegian forces in Trondheim area. Western Front Hitler postpones Gelb offensive from May 5 to May 6 (further postponements on May
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Diary May 3, 1945
Diary for Thursday, May 3, 1945: Burma INDIAN TROOPS OCCUPY RANGOON without resistance. Western Front British capture Hamburg. 59 merchant ships and 600 small craft scuttled. Patton takes Braunau (Hitler‘s
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