The Soviet Economy and the Red Army, 1930-1945
... did a backward country, the Soviet Union, defeat one of the greatest industrial powers of the world with probably the finest trained and equipped army of World War II? The popular theory in the West has been that masses of Russian soldiers attacked the German defenses, taking casualties of 10 to 1, ...
... did a backward country, the Soviet Union, defeat one of the greatest industrial powers of the world with probably the finest trained and equipped army of World War II? The popular theory in the West has been that masses of Russian soldiers attacked the German defenses, taking casualties of 10 to 1, ...
The German Blitzkreig Against the USSR, 1941
... Studies of various archival materials and memoirs of Stalin’s contemporaries allow me to conclude that it is highly probable that the Soviet leader underestimated the extent to which Hitler had been obsessed with these ideas, as well as the powerful impact that ideological motives had on Hitler’s p ...
... Studies of various archival materials and memoirs of Stalin’s contemporaries allow me to conclude that it is highly probable that the Soviet leader underestimated the extent to which Hitler had been obsessed with these ideas, as well as the powerful impact that ideological motives had on Hitler’s p ...
DEFEAT AT KASSERINE - 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines
... In June 1942, as the American 1st Armored Division made its final preparations to deploy to Northern Ireland and prepare for its entry into the war in Europe, it was not preparing to face Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Corps. The division was preparing to participate in an invasion of Europe, a ...
... In June 1942, as the American 1st Armored Division made its final preparations to deploy to Northern Ireland and prepare for its entry into the war in Europe, it was not preparing to face Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Corps. The division was preparing to participate in an invasion of Europe, a ...
DACS Working Paper February 1996 The British and American
... Meuse River, for example, the division's panzer infantry quickly deployed to conduct an opposed river crossing under the cover of divisional guns.2 Later when the same division faced a counterattack by two battalions of British heavy tanks at Arras, it was able to quickly deploy anti-tank and artill ...
... Meuse River, for example, the division's panzer infantry quickly deployed to conduct an opposed river crossing under the cover of divisional guns.2 Later when the same division faced a counterattack by two battalions of British heavy tanks at Arras, it was able to quickly deploy anti-tank and artill ...
At the Reich Labor Service
... I went with the command for loading of spare parts inventory to help the company on a train back to Thessaloniki. In May 1941 received the maritime transport of Patras to Taranto, the MS and MS Kybfels Marburg lost. In the division had reported 56 dead and 170 missing persons. We lost most of the te ...
... I went with the command for loading of spare parts inventory to help the company on a train back to Thessaloniki. In May 1941 received the maritime transport of Patras to Taranto, the MS and MS Kybfels Marburg lost. In the division had reported 56 dead and 170 missing persons. We lost most of the te ...
Hs 129 - Historical Notes for Mission Builders - Jagdgruppe-Ost
... ground troops so that they managed to hold the soviet forces at bay in the battles for Targul-Frumos and Iasi. When the major soviet summer offensive of 1944 swept away Army Group Center most of Luftflotte 4's ground-attack forces were moved north to support the crumbling german front and played no ...
... ground troops so that they managed to hold the soviet forces at bay in the battles for Targul-Frumos and Iasi. When the major soviet summer offensive of 1944 swept away Army Group Center most of Luftflotte 4's ground-attack forces were moved north to support the crumbling german front and played no ...
The Battle of Berlin
... - Georgy Zhukov (1st Belorussian Front) - Vasily Chuikov (1st Belorussian Front) - Konstantin Rokossovski (2nd Belorussian Front) - Ivan Konev (1st Ukrainian Front) - Joseph Stalin (Russian Leader) ...
... - Georgy Zhukov (1st Belorussian Front) - Vasily Chuikov (1st Belorussian Front) - Konstantin Rokossovski (2nd Belorussian Front) - Ivan Konev (1st Ukrainian Front) - Joseph Stalin (Russian Leader) ...
Battle of Kursk - Zion Central Middle School
... The ensuing attack left the front line running roughly from Leningrad in the north to Rostov in the south. In the middle lay a large 200 km (120 mi) wide by 150 km (93 mi) deep Soviet-held salient, or bulge, centered round the town of Kursk between German forward positions near Orel in the north, an ...
... The ensuing attack left the front line running roughly from Leningrad in the north to Rostov in the south. In the middle lay a large 200 km (120 mi) wide by 150 km (93 mi) deep Soviet-held salient, or bulge, centered round the town of Kursk between German forward positions near Orel in the north, an ...
WWII 2
... The world is shocked when Germany and the USSR sign a Non-Aggression Pact, promising not to attack each other ...
... The world is shocked when Germany and the USSR sign a Non-Aggression Pact, promising not to attack each other ...
Battle of Brody (1941)
The Battle of Brody (other names in use include Battle of Dubna, Battle of Dubno, Battle of Rovne, Battle of Rovne-Brody) was a tank battle fought between the 1st Panzer Group's III Army Corps and XLVIII Army Corps (Motorized) and five mechanized corps of the Soviet 5th Army and 6th Army in the triangle formed by the towns Dubno, Lutsk, and Brody between 23 and 30 June 1941. It is known in Soviet historiography as a part of the ""border defensive battles"". Although the Red Army formations inflicted heavy losses on the German forces, they were outmanoeuvred and suffered enormous losses in tanks. Poor Soviet logistics, German air supremacy as well as a total breakdown in Red Army command and control ensured victory for the Wehrmacht despite overwhelming Red Army numerical and technological superiority. This was one of the most intense armoured engagements in the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa and one of the largest tank battles of World War II.