Aircraft: Junkers Ju 87B Type: single-engine German divebomber Manufacturer: Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG Year: 1938 Engine: Junkers Jumo 211, 12-cylinder V, liquid-cooled, 1,200…
Aircraft: Heinkel He 111H Type: twin-engine German medium bomber Manufacturer: Ernst Heinkel AG Year: 1939 Engines: 2 Junkers Jumo 211A, 12-cylinder V, liquid-cooled,…
Aircraft: Dornier Do 17Z Type: twin-engine German medium bomber Manufacturer: Dornier-Werke GmbH Year: 1939 Engines: 2 BMW Bramo 323P, 9-cylinder radial, air-cooled, 1,000 hp…
Aircraft: Junkers 88A Type: twin-engine German medium bomber/dive-bomber Manufacturer: Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG Year: 1939 Engines: 2 Junkers Jumo 211B, 12-cylinder V, liquid-cooled,…
14 February 1945. The end of the war was months away, and excitement was in the air. National headlines boasted of imminent…
Known officially as the Infantry Tank Mark II, and less formally as the Matilda Senior or Matilda 2, this 27-ton tank wreaked…
What combination of factors led to Wavell's victory in the Desert of 1941?…
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He was the Soviet Union’s greatest sniper. In his first ten days work at Stalingrad, he killed 40 Germans. His final tally was 225.…
Complimenting our fact-files on Spitfire, Churchill, Hitler and Stalin, Military Times has compiled a list of frequently baffling facts about the Second World…