The Soviet Union was made after ‘annexing’ many other other nationalities. These countries, if one may call them so, were sick of Josef Stalin‘s Russia. And when the Germans walked into the Soviet Union in 1941, many people from these nationalities joined them against Russia. SOVIET FIGHTERS AGAINST RUSSIA. It is not known when and… Read more »
Many think that Stalingrad was the turning point of the Second World War. But the moment in the war that began the decline of Nazi Germany was that one winter day in Russia in 1941 when Josef Stalin paced the platform of Moscow station for some time and then did not climb aboard a train… Read more »
The Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger I was a heavy tank of World War II, developed by Nazi Germany. Originally developed under the name of Pzkw VI Ausf. H after a request by the OKW (High Command of the Army), the resulting project emerged the Elefant, the Sd. Kfz 181 Tiger I and, later, the Tiger II… Read more »
The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II. Officially, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces. The name also applies to the navigators, bombardiers, mechanics, instructors, crew chiefs, nurses, cooks… Read more »
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began in earnest on April 19, the day before the start of Passover, when SS units under command of SS Gruppenführer Jürgen Stroop arriving for the final deportations were greeted by an ambush. Insurgents set fire to German tanks, hurled handmade grenades and Molotov cocktails at advancing troops and managed to… Read more »