http://www.worldwar.se En sida om de tvÃ¥ krigen som förändrade världen... Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:13:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.worldwar.se/75-cm-feldkanone-38/ 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... http://www.worldwar.se/harry-truman/ 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... http://www.worldwar.se/escape-from-the-deep/ 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 ... http://www.worldwar.se/werner-molders/ 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... http://www.worldwar.se/2-cm-flugabwehrkanonegebirgsflakflakvierling-38/ 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 ... http://www.worldwar.se/operation-brevity/ 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 ... http://www.worldwar.se/tang/ 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 ... http://www.worldwar.se/75-cm-feldkanone-18/ 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 ... http://www.worldwar.se/dowdings-farewell-message-to-raf-fighter-command/ The Führer and Supreme Commanderof the Armed ForcesFührer Headquarters,11th June 1941.9 draft copies Directive No. 32Preparations for the period after Barbarossa http://www.worldwar.se/fuhrer-directive-32/