http://www.baor-locations.org/1rtr.aspx.html The link will provide a history of the worlds first tank regiment
I suspect that that it's simply a play on words only. Post war communist East Germany was known as the DDR, Democratic German (Deutch) Republic,...
"Singapore, the chain of Disaster" is a book written in 1971 by Major-General S Woodburn Kirby, who was also the author of the official British...
Th UK expected the Germans to lick their wounds,build up the Luftwaffe, and have a second go at defeating Great Britain and invading the British...
The Japanese air force & Navy might have been on it's knee's but the Japanese army was more or less intact. An invasion would have meant huge losses...
From a British point of view things were not quite like that. The decision to divert British Empire forces from North Africa and send them to Greece...
There is a widespread perception that the Japanese government has not accepted the legal responsibility for compensation and, as a direct consequence...
[quot Yes, the U.S. is occupying Japan. It might sound like "invitation", that's how the two governments announced, yes. Is it the truth? Nope!...
If the United Nations authorise military action (Korea for example) no decleration of war is required as it is the UN taking the action not an...
It looks like a DeHaviland Vampire. This was the second jet fighter ever to enter service with the RAF[ATTACH]
Awful as it all is, this is all 70 years old, Japan of today is a totally different country, it is impossible to prosecute any single individual and...
In this battle, the British Matilda II tanks were impervious to German A/T fire. The German 7th Armoured Division (Rommel) had the shock of their...
Picture is of a Cromwell tank knocked out by Michael Wittman[ATTACH]
[ATTACH][ATTACH] The Battle of Cambrai is celebrated every year by the Royal Tank Regiment (RTR). This battle although it ended in stalemate,...
Impractical? at 188 tons the Maus was totally useless, it would never have gone into production. Every bridge in Germany would have had to be rebuilt...
They were Cromwell tanks of the British 7th Armoured Division, the famous "desert rats". There is still an ongoing debate as to why the performance...
This picture shows how immense the Tiger II was. Next to the Tiger is the Panzer III, it looks like a toy when seen next to it's big brother. Photo...
The UK built most of it's own equipment at the start of the war. All our warships, aircraft , tanks, artillery pieces, small arms and vehicles were...
I think we will just have to agree to disagree. The US and Australian actions in Vietnam despite their ferocity and violence were part of a "police...
HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse, sunk by land based twin engined Torpedo Bombers off Malaya on 10th December 1941. The first capital ships sunk...
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