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The intriguing thing about the battle between RAF Bristol Beaufighters and Kriegsmarine ‘Flak Ships’ is that one of the combatants fell into the role somewhat by accident, and the other didn’t really exist – at least not in the form that its adversaries understood.
In 1939, the Marine nationale was the fourth-largest navy in the world. It possessed fast battleships designed to counter German raiders, some of the most powerful cruisers and destroyers afloat, one of the largest submarine fleets in existence, and a global network of bases stretching from Brest to Dakar, from Toulon to Saigon.
Extract from Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945
The airlift was one of the outstanding successes of the war, carrying 738,667 tons of supplies to China and ferrying 4,671 aircraft over a three-and-one-quarter year period. What made it even more remarkable was the starting point for the airlift was at the end of the world, literally for the United States.
When Italy switched sides in September 1943, the Wehrmacht swept in and gathered the remainder of the Italian tank inventory.
When pilots of VII Fighter Command flew their first mission over Japan on 7 April 1945, neither they nor the Japanese pilots they encountered could guess the campaign that opened that day would last just 13 weeks.
As its military campaigns in the Philippines and Dutch East Indies successfully concluded in early 1942, Japan turned its attention eastward. Japan’s goal in the South Pacific was to secure a defensive perimeter to resist future Allied attempts to reverse its conquests in the Indies and Southeast Asia.
Soviet tanks of World War II are among my favorite themes, so I was happy to embark on this project along with its companion volume on German tanks in Barbarossa. For readers who still believe the nonsense of Kursk being the biggest tank battle of all times, you might want to read this book!
Military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones offers a brief snapshot of exactly what readers can expect, ahead of the release of his highly anticipated new book, Rhineland: Hitler’s Last Defence 1944–45.
I did have a lot of data from captured German army records located at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, MD that is not widely known.
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