Diary March 16, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, March 16, 1915: Western Front Champagne: French storm crest north of Mesnil and repulse counter-attacks all along Fourth Army front, 48th Division gains Yellow Wood and in […]
Diary March 16, 1940
Diary for Saturday, March 16, 1940: Air War German air raid on Scapa Flow by 32 bombers (2 lost). Cruiser Norfolk damaged; 7 naval and 8 civilian casualties, including James
Diary March 16, 1945
Diary for Friday, March 16, 1945: Russian Front Hungary: Tolbukhin‘s 3rd Ukrainian Front launches major counter-attack against 6th SS Panzer Army and 3rd Hungarian Army (latter collapses). Air War Germany:
German Brandenburgers Special Forces and Panzergrenadier-Division Brandenburg
German Brandenburgers Special Forces and Panzergrenadier-Division Brandenburg: Elite WW2 Unit Analysis. The Brandenburgers During World War II, the Brandenburgers emerged as a notable special forces unit within Nazi Germany’s military,
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Diary March 15, 1940
Diary for Friday, March 15, 1940: Air War RAF aircraft drop leaflets over Warsaw (night March 15-16). A Whitley, low on fuel, lands by mistake in a field in West
Diary March 15, 1915
Diary for Monday, March 15, 1915: Western Front Flanders: British 27th Division regain lost ground at St Eloi, repulse fresh German attack on March 17. Aisne: General Maunoury of Sixth
Diary March 15, 1945
Diary for Thursday, March 15, 1945: Burma Japanese counter-attack at Meiktila (they retreat March 28). Air War Germany: Wehrmacht GHQ at Zossen, south of Berlin, pounded by 576 bombers of
Me 262
German Messerschmitt fighter-bomber A2a and interceptor A1a, the first jet-fighter in combat. History, development, service, specifications, pictures and 3D model. German jet fighter Messerschmitt Me 262 Messerschmitt Me 262 Type:
Diary March 14, 1940
Diary for Thursday, March 14, 1940: Finland Winter War: Evacuation of 470,000 people from lost territories commences (completed March 26).
Diary March 14, 1915
Diary for Sunday, March 14, 1915: Sea War Pacific: German cruiser Dresden (24 casualties) blows herself up under white flag off Juan Fernandez after being trapped at anchor by RN
Diary March 14, 1945
Diary for Wednesday, March 14, 1945: Air War Germany: Bielefeld Viaduct smashed by 22,000-lb bomb, (‘Grand Slam‘), thereby preventing movement from the Ruhr to Remagen. Russian Front Slovakia: Russians capture
Panther tank
German medium battle tank Panzerkampfwagen V Panther. History, development, service, specifications, statistics, pictures and 3D model. PzKpfw V Panther Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (SdKfz 171). Type: medium battle tank. The Panzerkampfwagen
Diary March 13, 1915
Diary for Saturday, March 13, 1915: Western Front Flanders – Battle of Neuve Chapelle ends. British 7th Division makes ground towards Aubers Ridge; 612 PoWs taken. Eastern Front Galicia: Selivanov
Diary March 13, 1940
Diary for Wednesday, March 13, 1940: Finland Winter War: Cease-fire on all fronts at 11 a.m. Field Marshal Mannerheim’s last Order of the Day to Finnish Army: ‘A severe peace
Diary March 13, 1945
Diary for Tuesday, March 13, 1945: Burma British capture Maymyo, cutting rail communications of Japanese garrison in Mandalay.
Italian Air Force and Navy
Strength and Organization of the Regia Aeronautica and Regia Navale when Italy enters Second World War in June 1940. Regia Aeronautica and Regia Navale Italian Air Force (Regia Aeronautica) The
Diary March 12, 1915
Diary for Friday, March 12, 1915: Western Front Flanders – Neuve Chapelle: 16,000-strong German counterattacks from 0500 hours, easily repulsed by IV and Indian Corps; III Corps takes L’Epinette. Fighting
Diary March 12, 1940
Diary for Tuesday, March 12, 1940: Politics TREATY OF MOSCOW ends 104-day Russo-Finnish Winter War. Finland loses Karelian Isthmus (inc. city of Viipuri and Vuoksi ‘industrial belt’), Hango naval base,
Diary March 12, 1945
Diary for Monday, March 12, 1945: Russian Front Zhukov takes Küstrin on the river Oder. Rokossovsky captures Tczew and reaches Gulf of Danzig, south of Gdynia. Air War Germany: 1,107
Performance on the Western Front
German military performance against the Western Allies in France and on the German frontier in 1944. back to Part III: Military performance in Italy 1943-44 Military performance on the Western
