An ignominious end: Tothe Admiral Graf Spee in the South Atlantic
At the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, the Kriegsmarine lay far behind the Royal Navy, as Hitler knew all too well. He had long come to the realisetion that fleet actions were out of the question, but had...
1934 ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE. The Graf Spee was a German commerce-raider brought to action by three smaller British cruisers in the first naval battle of World War II.
A GESTURE OF DEFIANCE
The third unit of the Deufschland class was the best known of these pocket battleships built in the early...
Combat weight: (T-10M, no crew) 48.23 tons (49.000 kg).
Lenght: (Gun to front) 34.9 ft (10.49 m typical); (gun to rear) 23.1 ft (7.4 m).
Widht: 11.8ft (3.44 m).
Height: (Excl. AA gun) 7.5 ft (2.260 m).
Engine: V-10 vee-12 watercooled diesel, 700 hp.
Armament: M-1955 122mm gun, 30...
Finnish Army WWII. Heavy anti-aircraft battery Taivas (Sky) in Helsinki shooting a barrage in Taivaskallio sector with 75mm Itk27 cannon at night in September 1942.
Winter War. This Russian heavy fortress and siege cannon from 1877, was difficult to move cross-country and only one artillery battalion in Finnish Army (Rask.Psto 5) was armed with it. The Barrel weight was 120 pood (app. 1 980 kg)
Right front view of a Soviet IS-2 heavy tank equipped with additional external fuel tanks and a 122mm gun on display on the grounds of the Memorial Complex of the Ukrainian state.
Location: KIEV, U.S.S.R. (SUN)
Date Shot: 20 SEP 1985Camera Operator: DON S. MONTGOMERY, USN (RET.)
Defense...
Today, there are two AVRO Lancasters in flying condition. One is flying in England, part of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF), and the other one is here in Canada. It is called the Mynarski Lancaster and is part of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, Ontario.
This...
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