Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary of German Battle Tanks, Armoured Cars, Self-Propelled Guns and Semi-Track. Cassell. ISBN 978-1854095183. Taki's Imperial Japanese Army Page - Akira Takizawa; Zaloga, Steven J. (2007). Japanese Tanks 1939–45. Osprey. ISBN 978-1-8460-3091-8

The war on the Eastern Front, known to Russians as the "Great Patriotic War", was the scene of the largest military confrontation in history. Over the course of four years, more than 400 Red Army
Like so many of the strange weapons the Nazis brought to the battlefields of the Second World War, the examples that remained were ground up and destroyed along with the rest of the Nazi war machine. The Berlin Air Force Museum of the German Federal Armed Forces proudly displays a wing spar of the Me 323, in the hope to offer a sense of scale
British Centurion tank, developed at the end of World War II and used as a principal main battle tank in the armies of the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries through the 1960s. Increases in gun calibre are well illustrated by the British Centurion, which started in 1945 with a 76-mm gun but in 1948 was rearmed with an 83.8-mm gun Before starting the war, the German High Command needed to figure out how to get past the French Maginot line, a 1,500 km defensive wall of fortifications, tank barriers, artillery, and machine-gun nests running along the French-German and French-Italian borders. Midway through World War II, Nazi Germany decided to take its huge 128-millimeter antiaircraft gun and stick it on its biggest, baddest tank. The result was the monstrous Jagdtiger (“Hunting
In 1945, the Swedish army had been modernized from the use of World War I weapons to semi-automatic rifles and high-tech firearms such as the Carl Gustav. The infantry had also been equipped with a great deal of rocket launchers for anti-tank warfare, and the availability of artillery had increased drastically with the World War II build-up. Name.

Here's how the British hunted them down. British Lancaster bombers head toward their target, Tirpitz, upper left, in Norway's Kaa Fjord amid a German smoke screen, September 15, 1944. Nazi Germany

Light Army Car. Roughly equivalent to the U.S. Jeep among German variants of WW2 vehicles but not as versatile, the Kurbelwagen was developed from the Volkswagen ‘‘people’s car’’ with a four-seat capacity and convertible top. The rear-mounted, air-cooled engine produced 24.5 hp, which yielded about 50 mph on level ground.

Anti-tank rifle. Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr 13.2 x 92 mm anti-tank rifle at the Musée de l'Armée in Paris. An anti-tank rifle is an anti-materiel rifle designed to penetrate the armor of armored fighting vehicles, most commonly tanks, armored personnel carriers, and infantry fighting vehicles. The term is usually used for weapons that can be

As many as 400 Soviet and 80 German tanks were destroyed. is the biggest tank battle in World War II,” Glantz said regarding the Battle of Brody during a 2007 lecture available via the U.S
The Blockhaus d’Eperlecques is a remarkable piece of World War II history. In March 1943 Germany started building this giant bunker in northwest France. Its location was close to the small town of Watten so it is also sometimes called the Watten Bunker. The bunker was never completed as the Germans intended.
It was one of the bitterest battles of World War II, and even though Soviet losses were heavy and the Germans gained ground, the Russians slowed the German advance to Moscow. 6. Battle of Norfolk
The Panzer VIII Maus, a German World War II super-heavy tank, is the biggest tank in the world. This tank was completed in the late 1944s and is the heaviest fully enclosed armoured fighting vehicle ever built. Only two hulls and one turret were completed before the testing grounds were captured by the Soviet forces.
The largest self-propelled guns of the war, these six siege howitzers were named after General Karl Becker, Chief of Artillery Development. Each had its own name: Adam, Eva, Thor, Odin, Loki, and Ziu. They were initially equipped with 60cm caliber barrels, though 54cm alternatives were later produced for better range.
Mitsubishi A5M, designed by Jiro Horikoshi, began carrying an external underside drop tank to provide fuel for extended range in 1937 and during World War II, the Luftwaffe began using external fuel tanks with the introduction of a 300 L (66 imp gal; 79 US gal) light alloy model for the Ju 87R, a long-range version of the Stuka dive bomber, in
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T-34/85 (North Korea) A North Korean T-34 tank on display in a museum, 2002. One of the most iconic tanks of the Second World War was the Soviet T-34 medium tank. The T-34, conceived in great 152 mm gun M1910/34 – captured from Russian. 152 mm howitzer M1938 (M-10) – captured from Russian. 17 cm Kanone 18 (heaviest German field artillery piece) 15 cm Schiffskanone C/28 in Mörserlafette (surplus guns on excess carriages of 17 cm Kanone 18) 203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4) – captured from Russian. 08. Panzer 4 (Germany) One of the extensively used German tanks and the most produced German tank during WWII. Production remained active until the very last moments of WWII in Europe. It was armed with a 75mm main gun that could destroy a soviet T 34 at a range of 1200m. .