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Akizuki

The most powerful and largest class of Japanese destroyers in World War II.
🕔︎ 23.04.2013 👁︎ 7.517

Battle of Midway

The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The U.S. Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chūichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondō near Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet.

🕔︎ 01.04.2009 👁︎ 58.280

Brief history of the 1st Mountain Division

The division, which was a model for all subsequent mountain divisions of the German army, including the SS, was founded on April 9, 1938 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
🕔︎ 16.03.2009 👁︎ 12.527

Fighting for the Solomon Islands - Guadalcanal, part 1.

At the Arcadia Conference, held shortly after the outbreak of the Pacific War, it was stated that the primary task for the American armed forces would be to deal with Germany, but by no means all senior American officers were of this opinion. Perhaps the most prominent opponent of a defensive strategy in the Pacific was the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Navy, Admiral E. J. King. King could not speak out against the concept of war adopted by the highest levels; to do so would have made him untenable for President Roosevelt as commander of the Navy. Therefore, he adopted a so-called defensive-offensive strategy in the Pacific. Under this theory, it was impossible to give the enemy time to establish a firm foothold in the newly acquired territories in the South Pacific and to build strong naval and air bases there.

🕔︎ 05.05.2009 👁︎ 48.021

Fighting for the Solomon Islands - Guadalcanal, part 2.

On the morning of August 7, 1942, the Japanese, informed of the American landings on Tulagi and Guadalcanal, were deciding how to strike the American expeditionary force. The area commander, Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa, acted immediately. He hastily assembled a group of six transport ships in Rabaul harbor on New Britain Island, embarked several hundred men and supplies, and dispatched the group to Guadalcanal in the inadequate escort of one destroyer.

🕔︎ 13.03.2010 👁︎ 33.508

Fighting for the Solomon Islands - Guadalcanal, part 3.

Tokyo's headquarters initially regarded the Allied landings in the southern Solomons as an episodic affair within its strategic interests in the Pacific. The situation changed when the Americans briefly put Henderson Airfield into operation, for at that point Tokyo realized that if it lost Guadalcanal permanently, the air base there would substantially weaken Japan's position throughout the region.

🕔︎ 03.03.2013 👁︎ 21.885

Fighting for the Solomon Islands - Guadalcanal, part 4.

On September 1, 1942, landing boats from the bowels of the transport ship Betelgeuse, which had just arrived from the base Noumeé in New Caledonia on the orders of Vice Admiral Ghormley, commander of the South Pacific area, began to transport to the shores of Guadalcanal to 390 men from the 6th Battalion of Sea Bees and with them engineer material, two bulldozers and six 127mm coastal guns. Many of the Marines, who were helping with the landing or just watching at the dock, watched with interest as the soldiers, not exactly young and many already with hair streaming gray and exuding the confidence of experienced men, stepped off the boats...

🕔︎ 07.03.2013 👁︎ 19.102

Fubuki - Storm for naval warfare

The new special destroyers of the Japanese Imperial Navy surpassed their competitors from all over the world not only with strong artillery armament but above all with a deadly torpedo weapon ...
🕔︎ 11.04.2013 👁︎ 7.647

Hacuharu - Early Spring

Early spring. Thus, the poetic name was given to the Japanese class of new modern 1st class destroyers, lighter and smaller than the dreaded Fubuki class vessels, yet no less deadly and armed ...
🕔︎ 09.04.2013 👁︎ 6.448

How Pz.Kpfw I., the first German tank, was born

Even before the Nazi domination of German politics in 1932, Heinz Guderian succeeded in addressing high places in Berlin with his concept of a mobile war as opposed to the static battles of World War I. However, Guderian's concept necessarily required concentrated formations of armored vehicles to be his mainstay.
🕔︎ 17.03.2009 👁︎ 13.918

Minekaze - The culminating wind

The Minekaze-class destroyers were the first ships of their kind to be designed and built by Japan's own forces. The quality of the construction was also confirmed by the post-war assignment of one unit to service in the Navy of the Republic of China, despite the age.
🕔︎ 07.04.2013 👁︎ 7.737

Mucuki - the first carrier of long spears

A class of destroyers, which were the first in the history of the Japanese Imperial Navy to have the dreaded 610mm torpedoes, nicknamed "long spears", the destructive power of which was convinced by the crew of many Allied vessels ...
🕔︎ 10.04.2013 👁︎ 7.895

Niizuki - destruction in the battle of Colombangara

On July 5, 1943, another Tokyo Express sailed from the port of Buin to transport reinforcements to decimated Japanese troops in northern Solomon. On the island of Kolombangara, however, an enemy operational alliance of Rear Admiral Ainsworth's cruisers was already waiting ...

🕔︎ 21.04.2013 👁︎ 10.635

Sokolovo 1943

After the Battle of Stalingrad and the subsequent surrender of the 6th Army, led by Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, the Red Army launched a large and not very well-thought-out offensive, heading to the cities of Kursk, Kharkov, Rostov-on-Don. The Wehrmacht responded with a strategic withdrawal from Kuban and tried, under Manstein's command, to stabilize the entire front. On February 15, 1943, the Red Army conquered Kharkov. In the front line, there was a promontory in the area around Kharkov, which the Red Army was not able to adequately cover. During morning of 22.02.1943 the XXXXVIII. tank corps set out for Kharkov from the south and the II. Waffen SS tank corps bypassed from the southwest. During March, the city was back in German hands. And just during the German offensive, during the defense of the entrusted section of the front, was the baptism of fire of the 1st Czechoslovak Independent Battalion, incorporated at the time in the 3rd Panzer Army Voronezh Front, under the command of Colonel General Golikov.

🕔︎ 14.03.2013 👁︎ 22.054

Yugumo - bloody dawn

The high demands placed by the Japanese Imperial Navy on vessels of this class required a high tax. None of the vessels of this class survived the end of the war ...
🕔︎ 14.04.2013 👁︎ 7.768

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