World War II
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:David Downing

In Moscow the chess championship began. Eight of the Soviet Union’s finest players had been chosen to contest the thrice-weekly matches, which were held at various locations in the capital. ...
( Category: World War II March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gerald F. Linderman

The officers dug in on a hillside . . . armed with Very [flare] pistols. The enlisted men attacked them, armed with concussion grenades. Nearly every enlisted man would have ...
( Category: World War II March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-09 | Author:Charles River Editors

Adding further to the nexus of problems faced by the Allies during the Second Happy Time, the Kriegsmarine adopted a new Enigma coding machine, TRITON, early in 1942, making their ...
( Category: World War II March 21,2020 )
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 | 2007-12-01 | Author:Bob Drury & Tom Clavin [Drury, Bob]

But Ingersoll would not let go so easily. He directed Ford to lead a team down to the hangar deck, evacuate the wounded, and try to douse the flames. Before ...
( Category: World War II March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:David Doyle

The RSO was designed to be used as a prime mover on the Russian Front, hence the name Raupenschlepper Ost (tracked tractor for the East). Nonetheless the vehicle served on ...
( Category: World War II March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steven J. Zaloga

3in. mortar crew of 3rd Carpathian Rifle Div. photographed near Mt Croce, 11 March 1944. Note the divisional patch, which was often removed in the front line: halved white over ...
( Category: World War II March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-20 | Author:Alejandro de Quesada

The Coast Guard’s contribution to Allied victory over the U-boats went far beyond what had originally been expected of them. Although the majority of the Coast Guard units could not ...
( Category: World War II March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-18 | Author:Walter Lord

( Category: World War II March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Patrick Delaforce

So HD set off once again to war - somewhere ‘over there’. 5th Camerons in HMTs Cheshire and Lancashire; 7th Black Watch in the liberty ship Fort Brunswick and LSI ...
( Category: World War II March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-29 | Author:Gilberto Villahermosa

1. The battalion will not get reinforcements from the home front until its fighting strength is at zero. 2. The establishment of a new battalion, if the original is wiped ...
( Category: World War II 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, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Volker Griesser [Griesser, Volker]

Günter Friebe was from Großgiesmannsdorf in Upper Silesia. Three weeks before this fateful trip he had said to me: ‘Listen to me, and pay attention to what I have to ...
( Category: World War II March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:P. E. Caquet

Table 6.1 Total army strength (divisions)32 Germany remained, in 1938, only halfway through its rearmament effort, and it was bumping against significant physical limits. The Versailles Treaty army limitation clauses ...
( Category: World War II 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 )