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 Lieutenant) July 26, 2016

VC: The rifleman Gurkha who knocked two Japanese tanks with his PIAT gun

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He was Ganju Lama, 19, a rifleman in the 1st Battalion, 7th Gurkha Rifles, in the Indian Army during World War II. He won the Victoria Cross (VC) in Burma on 12 June 1944. A month before this engagement, Ganju Lama had been awarded the...read more

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 Lieutenant) July 25, 2016

He was wounded five time, fought in nine battles and was awarded Nazi Germany's highest award

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He is Rudolf von Ribbentrop, a former Waffen-SS Captain who served in World War II. He is the son of the German diplomat and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.  

On 1 September 1939, when the Second World War ...read more

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 Lieutenant) July 24, 2016

Tactical maneuvers: Tigers tank Commanders and their lessons learned fighting against Josef Stalin II tanks

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According to Steven Zaloga, the IS-2 and Tiger I could knock each other out in normal combat distances below 1000 m. At longer ranges the performance of each respective tank against each other was dependent on the crew and combat situation. The September 1944...read more

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 Lieutenant) July 16, 2016

Nashorn SD.KFZ.164 Restoration Part I

Special Thank to Nashorn.SD.KFZ.164.restauration Facebook for letting me use their pictures.

■Have a look at their Facebook here:https://www.facebook.com/Nashorn.SD.KFZ.164.restauration/?ref=ts&fref...read more

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 Lieutenant) July 15, 2016

The Wreck of Gato-Class Submarine USS Herring SS-233 has been discovered at a depth of 104 meters on the bottom of the ocean

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A US submarine that sank during World War II has been discovered on the bottom of the ocean near Matua Island in Russia’s Far Eastern Kuril archipelago by a joint expedition of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) and Defense Ministry....read more

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 Lieutenant) July 14, 2016

Simply a Reenactor's Dream! - OT 810 Restored as Sd.kfz 251. For Sale!

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The Tatra OT-810 half-tracked transporters were designed in early the fifties in Tatra koprivnice, Czechoslovakia, and produced until 1963. Based on German half-tracked Sdkfz. 251. Recently, many of the OT-810 have been turned into WWII like...read more

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Best Minutes of German Panther Tank Footage

Have a look at these new videos made by Panzer Picture, where we take a look at some 30 minutes of WWII German Panther tank footage.read more

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31 Photos of historic World War II shipwrecks of HMAS Sydney (II) and the German raider HSK Kormoran

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The German raider HSK Kormoran and the light cruiser HMAS Sydney were re-discovered in 2008 with an expedition to the wrecks going out earlier this year. New photos of the HSK Kormoran and the HMAS Sydney have emerged. 700,000 images were taken during the...read more

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