Military History Pictorials
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Martin Windrow

The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, 1870–71 France declared war on Prussia on 19 July 1870. By early October half the French Army, under Bazaine, was encircled at Metz ...
( Category: Military Technology March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Robert Redd

THE SLAVE MARKET Little is known about the overall slave trade in St. Augustine. Despite being a port city, it appears that St. Augustine was not a major area where ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-16 | Author:Robert Forczyk & Steve Noon

The Soviet 9th Army tried repeatedly to infiltrate through the marshy Lagoon area and outflank the Germans, but every attempt was repulsed with heavy casualties. Here, Soviet infantrymen try to ...
( Category: World War II March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-05 | Author:Yves Buffetaut

A half-track destroyed by Wittman outside Villers-Bocage. (IWM) 1115: The 4th CLY indicate that the situation in town is absolutely untenable due to fire from 88mms. 1235: The 4th CLY ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-27 | Author:Nic Fields & Peter Dennis

Panoramic view of rice fields in the province of Vercelli, eastern Piedmont, with the Po in the foreground, the major river that runs right across the broad flat land above ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-21 | Author:Gabriele Esposito & Giuseppe Rava

Castilian cavalry of the Army of the North; troopers from that province formed a number of usually short-lived provisional units raised for expeditions into Liberal-held territory, but Castilians made a ...
( Category: Great Britain March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-19 | Author:Angus Konstam

LAUNCH OF THE FIRST WAVE FROM HMS ILLUSTRIOUS Shortly before 8.30pm on 11 November, the aircraft carrier Illustrious has reached ‘Point X’ – the position chosen by Rear Admiral Lyster ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Denis Hambucken [Hambucken, Denis]

Originally intended as a personnel carrier, the M3 half-track was also configured for a variety of other roles. This anti-aircraft version is fitted with the M45 Quadmount “quad-fifty” consisting of ...
( Category: World War II March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Mark Lardas

Commodore James Barron, one of the most senior officers in the US Navy, was suspended from the service for his role in the Chesapeake affair. (USNHF) Then Essex was finally ...
( Category: Naval Military History March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:John Jordan

Key: 1 No 3 funnel 2 No 2 funnel 3 Upper forward part of std gun turret 4 No 1 funnel 5 Foremast 6 Upper bridge 7 Lower bridge deck ...
( Category: Marine Engineering March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris McNab

An MG 42 machine-gunner and the crew of what appears to be a PaK 40 anti-tank gun ready themselves for the defence of the Western Front in 1944. Machine guns ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-17 | Author:Bob Carruthers

Prisoners wait in a trench as others, with their escorts, cross it by the use of a trench bridge. Notice that none of the Germans have a steel helmet: they ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Axelrod

GREAT EXPECTATIONS Scott, Lincoln, and McClellan himself had every reason to believe that he would perform admirably. Gallant in battle, a brilliant West Point graduate who had seen European warfighting ...
( Category: Civil War March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-17 | Author:Kyle Harmse

( Category: Military History Pictorials March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Susan Gillis

BRAAF soldiers welcomed the presence of women on the base from its early days. These women of the Army Nurse Corps pose outside the station hospital in January 1943. Pictured ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials March 17,2020 )