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Covers a variation of the German Fighter plane Messerschmitt Bf 109, designed to be used on the Kriegsmarine's aircraft carrier, Graf Zeppelin.
Junkers Ju 188 - German bomber during World War II, successor of the Ju 88, was flown in January 1943.
Aleksander Siewierski, originally from Georgia, was in the United States in 1917 and was there when the revolution in Russia broke out.
Highly illustrated look at the ship in the years 1944-1945 including descriptions, technical data and professional drawings.
Highly illustrated look at the Yakovlev Yak-3, considered one of the best World War II fighter planes.
The PzKpfw III (Panzerkampfwagen III) is a German medium tank designed by Daimler-Benz AG. The first tests of the vehicle took place in 1936. The construction of the PzKpfw III consisted of four main modules: the turret, the front of the hull, the rear of the hull with the engine compartment cover and the lower hull. The first version of PzKpfw III - Ausf. A - was produced in May 1937. Soon after, the Ausf. B and C versions also entered production. Ausf. D version was introduced in January 1938. Early PzKpfw III models were prototype vehicles and were not suitable for mass production on a large scale. They were powered by Maybach HL 108 TR petrol engines with 250 HP. They were armed with 37mm guns and three MG-34 machine guns (two in the turret and one in the hull).
British battleship HMS Royal Oak secured place in the history books as unlikely hero - sunk as a result of one of the most famous naval operations of the World War II. German submarine U-47, commanded by G. Prien, after undetected penetration into the Royal Navy Scapa Flow base, sent her down the bottom of the ocean together with the majority of her crew. This was one of the most painful losses of the British fleet during the war.>"R" battleships have not participated in many of the naval operations of the Great War, as for Royal Oak she took her part in the battle of Jutland. Between the wars HMS Royal Oak was incorporated into the Atlantic Fleet and Home Fleet. She operated on the Mediterranean Sea during the Spanish Civil War.
Covers the M4 Sherman, the most widely used medium tank by the United States and Western Allies in World War II.
The Sturmgeschutz III was Germany's most-produced fully tracked armoured fighting vehicle during World War II.
The standard carrier-based torpedo bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy for much of World War II.
Covers the last single-seat fighter biplane to be manufactured during the Second World War.
The M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage (M16 MGMC) also known as M16 half-track, was a US self-propelled antiaircraft gun built during World War Two.
M3 General Lee ¿ an American medium tank from World War II era, also used by the British army. In the US, known as Lee, in the United Kingdom as Grant. M3 tank was created as a result of the need to replace the obsolete M2 tank, which did not match the WWII battlefield. The serial production began in August 1941. The M3 tank had many components from the M2 light tank,including chassis, Wright R975 EC2 star engine and the shape of the combat compartment.
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