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Tuskegee Airmen

👤Miroslav Šnajdr 🕔16.02.2011

At the end of World War II, black members of the United States Armed Forces could be found on every battlefield. About half a million served overseas during the war. However, only a small group of them were allowed to be among the real elite of the American armed forces of the time, among the pilots. Thanks to this, they also received the most attention among black American soldiers of World War II. According to the place where they underwent flight training in the USA, they were nicknamed "Tuskegee Air men" ( Tuskegee pilots ). And the top among them were fighter pilots from the 332nd Fighter Group.

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Zugsführer Rudolf Simacek

👤Jiří Mašek 🕔18.04.2020

Pilot K. at K. Luftfahrtruppe and the Czechoslovak Air Force

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Forty minutes on the wing of an airplane

👤Marek Čech 🕔17.03.2021

Short description of the rescue of a two-member crew of a shot down aircraft on the wings of a biplane in the crashing Finnish winter

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Who was the designer of the T-34?

👤Ivo Valuch 🕔28.04.2021

The history of the T-34 tank fell on the period of "great terror" and was in many ways tragic for their creators. According to canonical Soviet historiography, the creation of the T-34 is associated exclusively with the name of the chief designer Mikhail Koshkin, who in December 1936 replaced the convicted Afanasiy Firsov. It should be noted that a design genius was needed to develop a groundbreaking tank design, and Koshkin was not.

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Gheorghe Pintilie - Founder of the Romanian Secret Service Securitate

👤Marek Čech 🕔30.06.2021

Gheorghe Pintilie, real name Timofej Bondarenko, was a Romanian communist of Ukrainian descent and an officer of the Soviet secret service NKVD, the founder and first director of the Romanian secret service Securitate. He organized mass repression, yet he was never punished for his crimes.

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3,7 cm FlaK 36/37/43 auf Sd.Kfz.7

👤Branislav Juhász 🕔28.03.2021

Primarily, these anti-aircraft vehicles were to serve in Luftwaffe units, but of course they were also used by the Wehrmacht ground army.

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BM-13-16 Katyusha

👤Branislav Juhász 🕔12.04.2021

The missiles were based on knowledge in the development of aircraft missiles RS-82 and RS-132. Launcher known as the prototype designations M-132, MU-2 and later serial designation BM-13-16, the best known and most used missile launcher of the USSR army. It consisted of 8 rails 5 meters long, two rockets each. Serial production began just before the invasion of the USSR.

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The economic situation of the USSR during the 1941-42 and allied help of the Lend-Lease - part 1.

👤Petr von Fenstein 🕔29.10.2009

The first part of a series devoted to the impact of Lend-Lease aid on the USSR's war effort, which seeks to answer the basic question - "How beneficial was this aid to the USSR?" According to most, the Soviet Union would have defeated Germany without this help. Is it probably clear that this information flows mainly from the ranks of communist historians, however, what is the reality?

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Estonia 1939 - 1941

👤gruppe.drei 🕔06.11.2007

At the end of the 1930s, the position of the Baltic states deteriorated. Anschluss of Austria, the Munich Conference on "About Us Without Us", the capitulation of France and Great Britain, and the occupation of the rest of Czechoslovakia drew the contours of future developments that were clearly unfavorable to small states, although Hitler officially demonstrated to the world his disinterest in other territorial demands.

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6. Panzer Division

👤Karl Schlange 🕔21.04.2004

The 6th Panzer Division gained one of the best combat records on the battlefields of World War II among all the divisions that fought in it. Its operation begins with the invasion of Poland in 1939 and ends with the defense of Vienna in 1945.

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MiG-3 in the fight for survival

👤Ing. Radek ˝ICE˝ Panchartek 🕔04.11.2012

At the time of the outbreak of hostilities between the Soviet Union and Germany, the MiG-1 and MiG-3, respectively, were the first and most numerous fighters of the new generation. MiG pilots had to fight to save the country and head of the design office to save production. After a series of crushing defeats, the country's free resources were limited and competition was high.

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Clash of titans

👤Jiří Fidler 🕔14.06.2007

The anniversary of the outbreak of the Soviet-German war provides an opportunity to recall some moments and ambiguities in the preparation and launch of hostilities. In this case, we will try to generalize certain data concerning tank units and their armament on both sides of the war. Although this topic has been studied in great detail in Russian literature for the last 15 years, we have preserved very outdated information in this field, at best from the early 1990s, at worst even the ideological floppy of Soviet propaganda.

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Brest-Litovsk 1941

👤Karl Schlange 🕔20.10.2006

In June 1941, the 4th Soviet Army was located in the area of Brest-Litovsk, which "conquered" the Brest-Litovsk fortress on the Poles in September 1939 and then held a legendary joint parade with Guderian's divisions. The following article discusses its fate at the beginning of the German invasion.

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Operation Barbarossa

👤Conan 🕔20.01.2001

It is June 22, 1941. After the occupation of almost the whole of Europe, the troops of Hitler's Germany now stand on the border with Russia - on the border that was created after these two states divided the conquered Poland ...

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Charley Havlat, a useless death with a great deal of irony

👤Martin Kaltoun (MART.in) 🕔19.06.2021

The last American soldier killed in action during World War II on the European battlefield.
Charley Havlat was the son of Czech emigrants Antonín Havlát (born in Ronov) and Antonia Havlátová birth name Němcová. Fate has prepared for him an end full of irony.

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Air Force Colonel Otakar Černý and his journey through the short 20th century

👤PhDr. Ladislav Kudrna, Ph.D. 🕔14.03.2011

The main trial of a group of "treacherous" pilots from the West took place at the infamous State Court in Prague from the morning of February 9, 1949. It was nothing more than a constructed process with a group of div. gene. Karel Janoušek, in which, coincidentally, he found himself Capt. Otakar Černý, who, like the others, heard a harsh verdict that afternoon. He sentenced him to three years in a heavy prison, sharpened by a hard bed. Furthermore, the loss of honorary badges, decorations and the loss of honorary civil rights for three years.

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Hungary during the Turkish occupation (16th - 17th century)

👤Edgar Pachta 🕔16.04.2021

After the fire of Turkish artillery scattered Hungarian knights on the battlefield of Mohács in 1526, the country was torn into two, and later even into three enemy parts, which had been fighting each other for one and a half centuries. At that time, a fragmented system of smaller fortifications began to be built in Hungary, consisting of several lines extending into the depths of the territory.

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Colonel Otto Hanzlíček

👤Beutin 🕔19.10.2006

Another of a number of brave Czechoslovak pilots fighting against the German occupation.

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Marija Bočkarjova - Commander of the Women's Death Battalion

👤Vladimír Šilhán 🕔23.04.2020

A description of the varied life of the organizer of the first purely female battalion in the Russian army and one of the first women - army officers in the Russian Tsarist army.

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Kunovice menagerie

👤Janko PALIGA 🕔14.05.2021

The story of the formation of a group of test pilots of the Czechoslovak aircraft manufacturer LET Kunovice.

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