World War II

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The Last Cavalry Battle in History: How 6,000 Cossacks Fought Against 15,000 Romanians in the Fields Near Stalingrad
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This was one of the last instances in world military history when the outcome of a battle was decided by a genuine cavalry charge with sabers drawn. And it did ...

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The crater is forty meters in diameter. What was the Soviet Air Force’s most powerful World War II aerial bomb, and what aircraft could carry it?
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On August 5, 1943, the Red Army liberated Oryol. That same day, Moscow fired the first salute of the war. And on the outskirts of the city, near the train ...

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Why Did the Kettenkrad Need a Front Wheel? The Strange Feature That Actually Made Engineering Sense
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Some vehicles make sense the moment you look at them. A car has four wheels, a tank has two tracks, and a motorcycle has two wheels. The German Sd.Kfz.2 ...

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A Third Panzer II Luchs Has Been Found on the Baltic Spit: Why Germany Built Only About a Hundred of Its Best Reconnaissance Tanks
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An event that looks almost unbelievable from the standpoint of armored warfare history has taken place on the Baltic Spit in Russia’s Kaliningrad Region. ...

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A Dirty Move
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In the Soviet Union, the Soviet-German phase of World War II began with a preemptive German deployment and a swift offensive that destroyed a significant ...

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