One bitter testimony from the Battle of France.

Fighter pilot the first line

Air Force Colonel in memoriam Stanislav Fejfar and his odyssey.

Unusual Hurricane victories of the RAF

The article describes five battles of RAF Hurricanes with unusual enemy aircraft.

The fall of the fortress La Ferte

La Ferté Fortress was the first fortress of the legendary Maginot Line to be conquered by the Germans. And it was far from the last ...

Battles over Sedan

The actual day of judgment came for the crews of Fairey Battle light bombers from the Advanced Air Assault Army (AASF) on May 14, 1940. British pilots in obsolete aircraft and without proper security with their own fighters were uncompromisingly thrown directly into the epicenter of the ongoing battle, the Sedan area. The result was one of the largest massacres of RAF bombers during World War II.

Against the flood - Sedan 13th of May, 1940

If the French infantry crouching in the forts, trenches, and cannon positions on the south bank of the Meuse River near Sedan on May 13, 1940, looked at the spring sky, they would see only enemy aircraft.

Junkers Ju 87 Stuka and Czechoslovak fighters

During the Second World War, they czechoslovakia fighters achieved 620 air victories, of which 395 were certain, either obtained individually or in cooperation. Among their victims we find all major Luftwaffe aircraft, including the famous Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber. Our fighters have been awarded 13 victories over this type. And this article deals with these fights.

Messerschmit Bf 109 E vs. Fokker D.XXI

Nazi Germany launched its West European offensive, Westfeldzug, on May 10, 1940. More specifically, its first phase, Fall Gelb (the "Yellow" plan) involving an attack on the neutral Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France. The offensive included massive Luftwaffe attacks on French, Belgian and Dutch airports.

The fall of fort Eben-Emael

Between 1932 and 1935, the Fort Eben-Emael artillery fortress was built on the rocky bank of the Albert Canal, on a rocky hill twenty kilometers north of Liege, Belgium, six kilometers south of Maastricht in the Netherlands, and 35 kilometers west of Aachen, Germany. It is the largest building in the Belgian interwar fortifications, with a total area of about 75 hectares, strong artillery and a crew of about 1,000 soldiers. From 10 to 11 May 1940, 55 German paratroopers eliminated her from the fight ...

Leopard 1

This tank was to replace the American M 47 tanks in the armament of the Bundeswehr and was to successfully fight the T 54.

The act of military surrender of Germany

The text of the surrender documents signed in Berlin on May 8, 1945

Attempted disarmament of the German garrison in the village of Mnich near Kamenice nad Lipou in May 1945 ended in bloodshed. Less known chapter of the resistance.

MGC-1

The technological demonstrator presents the possibilities of modifications / modernization of infantry fighting vehicles BVP-1 (or the original BMP-1), but after minor modifications also BVP-2 / BMP-2.

Hans Muck and the uprising of the serfs in the vicinity of Bezdružice

Probably in the spring of 1680, a slave uprising took place on the Bezružice-Švamberk estate, which at that time belonged to the imperial chamberlain Jan Kryštof of Heissenstein. Hans Muck from Görlitz is mentioned as the main leader of the rebellion.

Universal machine gun Madsen/Saetter

History of the origin and use of the little-known universal machine gun of Danish construction.

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Auschwitz is the largest National Socialist concentration and extermination camps. From the end of 1943, Auschwitz consisted of three separate parts. Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II - Birkenau and Auschwitz III - Monovitz.

A25 Light Tank Mk VIII Harry Hopkins

Harry Hopkins was designed in 1941 by Vickers and manufactured by Metropolitan-Cammell. The official marking is "Tank Light Mark VII vevised". The chassis and other mechanical components from the A17 Light Tank Mk VII Tetrarch were used on all three prototypes.

Sd.Kfz.251/22

The first mention of the proposed installation of a long gun of 7.5 cm caliber on the platform of the medium armored personnel carrier Sd.Kfz.251 was found in the minutes of the Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen at a meeting with Adolf Hitler on 28.10.1944. It was a mount of a modified tank cannon 7.5 cm Kw.K. L / 48 from the tank Pz.Kpfw.IV. It was a design of a medium-sized Schützenpanzerwagen (7.5 cm) (Sd.Kfz.251 / 22) (AK 7 B 84).

The Downing Of The U-2

In 1958 and 1959, reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union took place only sporadically. Eisenhower was constantly worried that overflights could provoke the Soviets to react, and perhaps even start World War III. Beginning in 1959, the Soviets fired U-2s with their SA-2 ground-to-air missiles, and some came dangerously close. The question of the size of the Soviet arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles still remained unanswered.

Air conflict over the Ural (the downing of U-2 near Sverdlovsk 1.5.1960)

How the Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot down in May 1960.