The 7.5 cm Feldkanone (FK) 38 were designed by the German armament firm Krupp and they were adopted by the German Army in 1939. 80 guns were produced for the German Army, and 64 were built for export to the Brazilian Army. They were longer than the earlier 7.5 cm FK 18 field […]
Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, United States to John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen Young Truman. He was named after his mother’s brother, Harrison Young; his middle name S, a single letter that legally was not short for anything, honored both his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Tru…
Full Title: Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew
The USS Tang, although not commissioned into service until late 1943, quickly became one of the most effective submarines of WW2. In her short career, she sank 31 Japanese ships of various typ…
Werner Mölders was born in Gelsenkirchen, Westphalia, Germany to teacher Viktor Mölders and Annemarie Mölders (née Riedel) as the third of four children. The elder Mölders was a reserve junior officer in the German King’s 145th Infantry Regiment; he was killed in action on 2 Mar 1915 in the Argo…
In Apr 1934, the Germany Navy adopted the 2-centimeter C/30 gun as its standard anti-aircraft weapons. During the Spanish Civil War, these guns were experimentally mounted on a few He 112 aircraft, and they proved to be effective aerial anti-tank weapons. In the late 1930s, the armament manufa…
In late Mar 1941, Axis forces under the direction of Erwin Rommel launched an offensive, placing Tobruk, Libya under siege as of mid-Apr and by end of that month capturing the strategically important Halfaya Pass in Egypt. British Middle East Command chief General Archibald Wavell developed the …
USS Tang was commissioned into service in late 1943 as the Pacific War was already well underway. On her first war patrol, she encountered Japanese ships for the first time before sunrise on 17 Feb 1944; she survived a depth charging by the convoy escorts and then torpedoed and sank the transpor…
The 7.5 cm Feldkanone (FK) 18 field guns were designed in the mid-1930s to replaced the 7.5 cm FK 16 nA field guns which had been in use since the early 1930s. They were designed by the German armaments firm Krupp. They were adopted by the German Army in 1938.
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My dear Fighter Boys,
In sending you this my last message, I wish I could say all that is in my heart. I cannot hope to surpass the simple eloquence of the Prime Minister’s words, “Never before has so much been owed by so many to so few.” The debt remains and will increase.
In […]
The Führer and Supreme Commanderof the Armed Forces
Führer Headquarters,11th June 1941.9 draft copies
Directive No. 32Preparations for the period after Barbarossa
Otto Adolf Eichmann was born in Solingen, Germany to industrialist and businessman Adolf Karl Eichmann and his wife Maria Eichmann (née Schefferling). In 1914, his family moved to Linz, Austria, after the passing of Maria Eichmann. During WW1, his father served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. He…
The 24 cm Schnelladekanone Theodor Karl railway guns, also known as 20 cm SK L/40, were originally naval guns of the Kaiser Friedrich III-class and Wittelsbach-class battleships. They were built by the German armament manufacturer Krupp. They were unmounted from the warships beginning in Feb 1915 …
With the holiday season upon us, I thought that examining a few travel posters would be fitting. So here we go…
1. Won’t you give my boy a chance to get home?” — Of course I will. Who can resist a blue star mother and the love she has for her son? That trumps whatever el…
El Alamein was a small railway town on the Egyptian coast that was chosen by British Commander-in-Chief Claude Auchinleck to be the main defensive position against the mid-1942 offensive conducted by Erwin Rommel. Auchinleck had chosen the location largely because of the Qattara Depression to th…
Haskell-class attack transports (APA) were amphibious assault ships of the United States Navy created in 1944. They were designed to transport 1,500 troops and their combat equipment, and land them on hostile shores with the ships’ integral landing craft.
Of the 111 Haskells built in tim…