Nieuport 11
French scout and single-seat fighter Nieuport 11 and 16 ‘Bebe’. History, development, service, specifications, statistics and pictures. Nieuport 11, 16 Type: single-seat fighting scout. History: The Nieuport 11 found its […]
Diary March 6, 1940
Diary for Wednesday, March 6, 1940: Politics Finnish government, faced with desperate military situation, sends peace delegation to Moscow.
Diary March 6, 1915
Diary for Saturday, March 6, 1915: African Fronts Southwest Africa: Deventer‘s South Force of 9,000 men invades at Schuit Drift, river Orange. Berrange’s East Force (2,500 mounted infantry with 2
Diary March 6, 1945
Diary for Tuesday, March 6, 1945: Russian Front Poland: Rokossovsky captures encircled fortress of Grudziadz. Operation Frühlingserwachen (‘Spring Awakening’): 6th SS Panzer Army attacks north of lake Balaton in attempt
Operation Torch
Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa. Allied landings in North Africa 1942 Operation Torch was the code name for the Allied invasion of French North Africa during World
Diary March 5, 1915
Diary for Friday, March 5, 1915: Sea War Dardanelles: Battleship Queen Elizabeth fires 21,000 yards (ca. 19 km) over Gallipoli Peninsula at Narrows’ forts until next day. Aegean: 2 Royal
Diary March 5, 1940
Diary for Tuesday, March 5, 1940: Western Front Germans capture British outpost in Maginot Line (2 killed, 16 taken prisoner); outpost later recaptured. Finland Winter War: Russians cross ice-bound Viipuri
Diary March 5, 1945
Diary for Monday, March 5, 1945: Western Front Americans enter Cologne. Air War Germany: RAF daylight raid on Gelsenkirchen oil plant.
German uniforms of WW2
Army uniforms of the Wehrmacht in the Second World War. German insignia and special uniforms for the Western Desert an the Eastern Front. The field-gray uniform of the Wehrmacht was
Diary March 4, 1915
Diary for Thursday, March 4, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: Admiralty decides the 29 PoWs of U8 cannot receive ‘honorable treatment’. Germany threatens reprisals on April 2. Shells and Fuses Agreement
Diary March 4, 1940
Diary for Monday, March 4, 1940: Finland Winter War: Finns repulse attacks east and west of Viipuri (in the West Russians attack across ice of Viipuri Bay).
Diary March 4, 1945
Diary for Sunday, March 4, 1945: Burma British 14th Army captures Meiktila, south of Mandalay. Western Front US tanks (1st US Army) reach the Rhine north of Cologne. Air War
German Orders of Battle at the armistice with France
German Orders of Battle from 25 June 1940 early, the day of the armistice with France. Schematic layout of the Wehrmacht, divisions and equipment. By 10 June the Germans had
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Diary March 3, 1940
Diary for Sunday, March 3, 1940: Finland Winter War: Hand-to-hand fighting in suburbs of Viipuri. Russians capture railway station.
Diary March 3, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, March 3, 1915: Eastern Front Galicia: Russians retake Krasna and next day also Stanislau, claim 19,000 PoWs since February 21. Western Front Flanders: 1st Canadian Division enters
Diary March 3, 1945
Diary for Saturday, March 3, 1945: Western Front Canadians and Americans link up between Maas and Rhine. Philippines Japanese resistance in Manila ends. Air War Britain: 100 German night intruders
Hawker Hurricane
British fighter plane and fighter-bomber Hawker Hurricane. History, development, service, specifications, statistics, pictures and 3D-model. Hawker Hurricane and Sea Hurricane Hawker Hurricane I to XII, Sea Hurricane IA to XIIA.
Diary March 2, 1940
Diary for Friday, March 2, 1940: Finland Winter War: Russians reach southern suburbs of Viipuri. Finnish fighters foil attempted raid on Helsinki. Air War Germany: High-flying RAF Supermarine Spitfire photographs
Diary March 2, 1945
Diary for Friday, March 2, 1945: Air War Germany: 2 RAF daylight raids on Cologne. 406 USAAF bombers attacking again Dresden. Western Front 9th US Army takes Krefeld, Venlo and
Diary March 1, 1915
Diary for Monday, March 1, 1915: Sea War Britain: Government declare it ‘WOULD PREVENT COMMODITIES OF ANY KIND ENTERING OR LEAVING GERMANY’. But, owing to fear of alienating USA and
