Red Air Force and Navy 1941-1942
Soviet Red Air Force and Red Navy in the first years of the war 1941 to 1942. Organization, aircraft and warships. Russian Air Force 1942 The enforced lull in air …
1941
Japanese Navy
Strength and organization of the Imperial Japanese Navy in December 1941 at the Pearl Harbor raid. Ships of the Combined Fleet and Japanese Naval Air Force. The Prime Minister presided …
Bulgarian Armed Forces
Bulgarian Armed Forces in the Second World War. Organization and divisions of the army, tank strength, air force and planes, navy. Bulgarian Army Throughout World War II Tsarists Bulgaria was …
Axis Eastern Front allies
Axis Eastern Front allies: Spanish ‘Blue’ division and Volunteer Air Force, Croatian Army and Air Force, pro-Axis Serbian troops. Spanish Volunteer Units In return for German help in the Spanish …
Slovak Armed Forces
Slovak Armed Forces in the Second World War: organization of the Army and divisions and Air Force in the Polish campaign 1939 and on the Russian front 1941-1944. In March …
Hitler’s declaration of war to the USA
Part III of ‘Why did Hitler declare war on the US?’ Back to PART II: The ‘undeclared war’ of the USA against Germany The road to the ‘real’ World War. …
Undeclared War
Part II of ‘Why did Hitler declare war on the US?’ Back to PART I: Why did Hitler declare war on the US? The ‘undeclared war’ of the USA against …
Why did Hitler declare war on the US?
Hitler’s declaration of war to the United States appears to be difficult to understand, superfluous, and sealed the fate of the Third Reich. On 12 December 1941, Adolf Hitler declared …
Operation Rhine Exercise
Operation Rheinuebung (‘Rhine Exercise’), the final cruise of the Bismarck Detailed action, numerous photos and video. Here to Part I: development, specifications, and 3d model of Bismarck Operation Rhine Exercise, …
Battleship Bismarck
Battleship Bismarck. History, development, final cruise, specifications, pictures and 3d model of the German warship. Design, construction and final cruise of battleship Bismarck. Bismarck class (two ships: Bismarck and Tirpitz) …
German Orders of Battle – Operation Barbarossa
German Orders of Battle shortly after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa on June 27, 1941, in the evening. German Orders of Battle five days after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. …
US Uniforms
Uniforms of the U.S. Army in World War II. Uniforms and insignia in Northwest-Europe 1944-45, in the Pacific War and from US Marine Corps. Uniforms of the US Army The …
Operation Barbarossa
Could had Operation Barbarossa – Hitler’s attack on Soviet Russia – a different course and why was the invasion carried out in June 1941 ? Why Operation Barbarossa in June …
Red Army 1941
Strength and Organisation of the Red Army at Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. The Winter War against Finland had revealed many shortcomings in the Red Army and, in the following …
Airborne invasion of Crete
Operation Merkur (Mercury), the ‘Battle of Crete’. German Plan of Attack and assault troops, deployed forces, intelligence, the fighting and losses on Crete. Operation Merkur The same time as on …