Diary for Sunday, July 4, 1915: Western Front Argonne: Crown Prince’s attack diminishing, but captures La Fille Morte mill on July 7. Southern Fronts Albania: Serb punitive expedition enters Durazzo, […]
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Diary for Thursday, July 4, 1940: Sea War Ju 87 Stukas and German E-boats attack convoy, south of Portland, sinking five merchant ships and auxiliary anti-aircraft (AA) ship Foyle Bank.
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Diary for Wednesday, July 4, 1945: Philippines Mac Arthur announces ‘liberation’ of the Philippines.
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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
Diary for Saturday, July 3, 1915: Western Front Flanders: German raid on advanced trenches on Verlorenhoek road (Ypres). Meuse: German attacks on Calonne trench, Meuse heights. Sea War North Sea:
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Diary for Wednesday, July 3, 1940: Sea War THE MERS-EL-KEBIR AFFAIR (Operation Catapult): British ‘Force H’ opens fire on French naval squadron in Mers-el-Kebir naval base, Algeria, after failure of
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Diary for Tuesday, July 3, 1945: Occupied countries Germany: First US occupation troops arrive in Berlin; British contingent arrives next day.
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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
Diary for Friday, July 2, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: Munitions of War Act passed and £250 million War Loan Act; 46,000 women munition workers enrolled in first week. Munitions Tribunals
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Diary for Tuesday, July 2, 1940: Sea War British liner Arandora Star (15,501 t), carrying 1,500 Italian and German internees and PoWs to Canada, sunk by U-boat U-47 west of
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Diary for Monday, July 2, 1945: Sea War Pacific: Rockets fired at Kaihyo island (North Japan) by US submarine Barb.
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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
Diary for Thursday, July 1, 1915: Western Front French Army peak mobilized strength with 4,978,000 men plus 152,000 released to industry and agriculture but recallable. In July first 180,000 French
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Diary for Monday, July 1, 1940: Occupied countries Channel Islands: German occupation completed. Air War Hull and Wick (northeast Scotland) bombed in daylight; 12 killed, 22 injured. 12 Hampdens bomb
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Diary for Sunday, July 1, 1945: Sea War Pacific: Australians land at Balikpapan (Operation Oboe II).
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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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Diary for Wednesday, June 30, 1915: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Main Italian infantry assault begins along 21-mile front but only gains, for fearful losses, a small bridgehead east of the river
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Diary for Sunday, June 30, 1940: France Franco-German-Italian Armistice Commission in session at Wiesbaden. Surrender of 220,000 French troops cut off in underground fortresses of Maginot Line. Occupied countries Channel
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Diary for Saturday, June 30, 1945: Okinawa Americans complete ‘mopping up’ operations: 8,975 Japanese killed and 2,902 captured, June 23-30. Sea War Pacific: 9 US submarines which have penetrated heavily
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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
