List of author's articles

Father of the Royal Air Force, the first independent air force in history.

Part III. deals with the aviation side of the whole encounter.

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.

English liquidation of Boer independence in South Africa. Concentration camps for Boer civilians and the Boer guerrilla war.

The Battle of Bzura, also called the Battle of Kutna, was one of the toughest and bloodiest encounters in the 1939 Polish campaign.

Scharnhorst was the first ship of the German navy to go well above the limits of the Treaty of Versailles from the beginning. Originally, the ship's displacement was supposed to be about 18,000 tons, but in response to the construction of the French Dunkirk-class battleships, construction was completed in July 1934 and resumed about a year later as another structure with an official tonnage of 26,000 tons. Scharnhorst's new design provided good armor protection and the high-pressure steam turbines gave it excellent speed.

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.

Italian fighter who became a legend in the backwater of Italian East Africa fighting against Allied superiority.

From the spring of 1939 the new code letter system for Kampfverbänden was introduced. The combination of numbers and letters in front of the side cross indicated the appropriate unit to which a particular machine belonged.

Correct assessment of the opponents... the courage to clear the field for a short time when you have only a small group in front of you, the energy put into sharp marches, the boldness in sudden attacks, the increased activity that great souls acquire in the moment of danger - these are the basis of such victories.

Fighter Aces Spanish Civil War 1936-39 - Republicans. Spaniards, French, USA, Yugoslavia, USSR

One of the few successful Slovak pilots in the battles with Hungary in the spring of 1939, later a Slovak fighter ace. He was one of the most experienced Slovak fighters and went through all the conflicts of the independent Slovak Air Force.

As a lieutenant he joined the 5th / JG 77 Herz As, the baptism of battle passed over the Balkans, followed by fighting with the British over Crete. In Russia, after the first few years, he achieved seven air victories, in 09.1941 awarded both degrees of the Iron Cross.

German military aviator and general. He specialized in naval operations and anti-ship combat. He is credited with destroying 22 ships during World War II.

Rappal Treaty between Germany and Soviet Russia signed on 16.4.1922, enabled both countries to emerge from international isolation and establish advantageous cooperation, especially economic, but also military. The secret part of the agreement dealt with cooperation between the general staffs of the German and Soviet armies. The most famous is the flight school in Lipetsk.

Hungary's border battles with Slovakia in the spring of 1939 also had an air dimension. An attempt to capture the course of air battles is the following article, which is followed by brief biographies of selected major actors.

Description of the fighting in the lesser-known battlefield of World War II.

Combat deployment of the Italian navy in the Black Sea and Lake Ladoga in 1942-43.

Biography of a Soviet fighter and test pilot, a veteran of several conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to the fighting in Korea, in which the reported total number of victories in some sources reaches 135. The fact attempts to reveal this article.

German volunteers on the side of General Franco's nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. Events of the Condor Legion fighting in the direction of the Mediterranean. The Battle of Teruel, the Battle of the River Ebro, the last months of the Civil War.

German volunteers on the side of General Franco's nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. Events before the founding of the Condor Legion and the first months of its existence until the spring of 1937.

German volunteers on the side of General Franco's nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. Events to fight the Legion of Condor on the Northern Front, including the bombing of Guernica.

Maggiore Carlo Emanuele Buscaglia, pilot of the Regia Aeronautica, was one of the most famous aviators of World War II and was awarded the Gold Medal for military bravery. He specialized in torpedo bomber attacks and managed to sink, according to official Regia Aeronautica records, more than 100,000 tons of enemy shipping tonnage.

Helmut Paul Emil Wick was a German flying ace of World War II. He was a wing commander in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany, and the fourth recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, the nation's highest military decoration at the time.

The story of America's most decorated aircraft carrier serving throughout World War II.

The formation of Waffen-SS units and their first fighting until June 1941

Portugal's war contribution to the victory of the Entente in World War I was redeemed by about 12,000 lost soldiers on European and colonial fronts and at sea. Civilian casualties climbed to 220,000, of which 82,000 per famine due to the collapse of supplies and 138,000 from the "Spanish flu". The following article deals with the main events on the ground battlefields.

The Air Force of the Kingdom of Italy on the battlefield of North Africa during World War II

Seeing Russia as a rival, Japan offered to recognize Russian dominance in Manchuria in exchange for recognition of the Korean Empire as being within the Japanese sphere of influence. Russia refused and demanded the establishment of a neutral buffer zone between Russia and Japan in Korea, north of the 39th parallel. The Imperial Japanese Government perceived this as obstructing their plans for expansion into mainland Asia and chose to go to war. After negotiations broke down in 1904, the Imperial Japanese Navy opened hostilities in a surprise attack on the Russian Eastern Fleet at Port Arthur on 9 February 1904. The Russian Empire responded by declaring war on Japan.

Although Russia suffered a number of defeats, Emperor Nicholas II remained convinced that Russia could still win if it fought on; he chose to remain engaged in the war and await the outcomes of key naval battles. As hope of victory dissipated, he continued the war to preserve the dignity of Russia by averting a "humiliating peace". Russia ignored Japan's willingness early on to agree to an armistice and rejected the idea of bringing the dispute to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague.

The complete victory of the Japanese military surprised international observers and transformed the balance of power in both East Asia and Europe, resulting in Japan's emergence as a great power and a decline in the Russian Empire's prestige and influence in Europe. Russia's incurrence of substantial casualties and losses for a cause that resulted in humiliating defeat contributed to a growing domestic unrest which culminated in the 1905 Russian Revolution, and severely damaged the prestige of the Russian autocracy.

In the late nineteenth century, a fever broke out among the great powers over the colonial division of the rest of the world. Japan naturally succumbed to this pressure and, like Tsarist Russia, sought to usurp Korea and Manchuria and its share of the division of China. Japan was already dreaming of seizing Sakhalin and the Far East.
Russia sought a warm-water port on the Pacific Ocean both for its navy and for maritime trade. Vladivostok remained ice-free and operational only during the summer; Port Arthur, a naval base in Liaodong Province leased to Russia by the Qing dynasty of China from 1897, was operational year round.

A brief biography of the Japanese Army Air Force's most successful fighter ace. His score of 58 aerial victories was achieved in the Nomonchan conflict.

He became one of the leaders of the 204th Kokutai es during the Solomon Islands campaign and one of the top five scoring pilots in the Japanese navy.

Belarusians, Ukrainians, Cossacks and Russians fighting in German armed forces against Soviet Russia. Brief outline of numbers and major events.

A controversial figure in Ukrainian history. Seven times sentenced to life imprisonment for assassinations in Poland during the 1930s. After the defeat of Poland, briefly at large, then imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until autumn 1944, post-war OUN leader, killed by the KGB in Munich.

Hungarian fighter pilot who achieved two air victories over Slovak aircraft during the fighting in the spring of 1939

Operation Catapult, air raids on Gibraltar, Operation Ironclad, fighting in the Levant ... The tragedy of the fighting between the two former allies ...