Top Tanks of WW2 with armour expert Steven J. Zaloga
WW2 armour expert and Osprey author Steven J. Zaloga recently appeared on an episode of James Holland and Al Murray’s We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast to chat about the top tanks of WW2.
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WW2 armour expert and Osprey author Steven J. Zaloga recently appeared on an episode of James Holland and Al Murray’s We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast to chat about the top tanks of WW2.
By February 1945, three US Marine divisions were committed to take Iwo Jima, a Japanese possession located some 1,200km south of Tokyo.
I’ve been fascinated by the Battle of France for many years after having read Alistair Horne’s classic “To Lose a Battle: France 1940” when it first came out in 1969. Osprey’s New Vanguard series editor, Tom Milner, has been encouraging me to write these “Tanks of…” titles so the Battle of France was a natural theme for me. I’ve already done two New Vanguards on French tanks of this period, as well as two Osprey Duels on tank engagements in the Battle of France.
We spoke to Bruce Newsome about the duel between Panzer III and Valentine tanks.
In contrast, the British 8th Army entered the desert campaign with an unproven doctrine for armoured warfare, which sufficed against the Italians in 1940 but fared badly against Rommel’s DAK in 1941. Despite the success of Operation Crusader in December 1941, British armoured doctrine took a large step backwards in mid-1942, primarily due to the inability of 8th Army to properly employ their tanks.
The US Army did not possess a medium tank in the 1930s, although several developmental designs existed on paper, and in some cases, prototypes were built through the 1920s
The Tiger tank is perhaps the most recognizable symbol of Germany’s armoured force in the Second World War; therefore, it was perhaps inevitable that the tank would become closely associated with the famous Soviet victory at Prokhorovka in July 1943.
The first book I wrote in 1996 for Osprey’s popular Campaign series, more than 25 years ago, was also on the subject of Operation Bagration. Operation Bagration was the Red Army’s central campaign against the Wehrmacht in the summer of 1944, which corresponded with the Normandy campaign in the west.
The Soviet Manchurian offensive in August 1945 was the largest armoured action in Asia during World War II, and the resulting geostrategic changes had impacts that continue to this day.
It is important to remember (and often overlooked in the West) that despite suffering a very high number of armoured losses on 12 July 1943 during the battle of Prokhorovka, the Soviets achieved their central aim of halting the German II SS Panzer Korps’ drive on the town (the Red Army lost as many as 246 armoured fighting vehicles [AFVs] during the battle and its immediate aftermath). As a result, the Soviets were the clear winners of the battle of Prokhorovka.
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