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Happy Easter to everyone. The Great Emu War. The Sun Herald, 5 July 1953. "If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world... They can face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks. They are like Zulus whom even dum-dum...

Last night I was sorting through the old photographs and stumbled upon a photograph of my father. What a great man he was ... He passed away a long time ago, but I still vividly remember his salty jokes and nutty sayings, and I love them more and more ... If you don't mind comrades, I would...

The article: “Five Red Army snipers destroyed 1860 Germans; well-trained shooters are taught to beat a squirrel in the eye.” The article was written by an American journalist and it was published in the American newspaper “New York Times” on October 2 1942 . There is no propaganda in the...

“Five Red Army snipers destroyed 1860 Germans; well-trained shooters are taught to beat a squirrel in the eye." «The New York Times», USA. # October 2, 1942. “The Red Army has the opportunity to take advantage of the experience of thousands of snipers trained in peacetime." "MOSCOW, October...

Snipers of WW2. The Soviet Union was the only country in the world where the training in sharpshooting was put on the stream, it practically covered the whole population of the country. The older generation probably still remember the most popular badge the “Voroshilovsky shooter” between...

Girls versus tanks. On August 23, 1942, Soviet anti-aircraft gunners of the 1077th anti-aircraft artillery regiment stopped the Germans in Stalingrad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1077th_Anti-Aircraft_Regiment_(Soviet_Union) The 1077th anti-aircraft artillery regiment was transferred to...

Fascinated. Soviet Air Forces suffered the smallest casualties in World War II. The losses of the Air Forces of all the countries who were participating in World War II: http://forum.guns.ru/forummessage/205/813676-2.html It turns out that the Air Forces of the USSR suffered the...

The deadly waltz. The Moscow, in Levitan’s voice ( famous Soviet radio narrator) informed the country that the historic operation to lift the blockade from Leningrad was victoriously completed! But near Leningrad, there were more than two Wehrmacht divisions in a bag, including the Nordland...

Did Nuclear Weapons Cause Japan to Surrender? https://youtu.be/CSSexxwDzgs Why Did the Japanese Surrender in World War II? https://youtu.be/vTfmwFNC0jw True Cause of Japanese Surrender in WW2 https://youtu.be/_1_95IrT6ko Hiroshima: Was the atomic bomb necessary...

Look man... To be honest I’m getting tired with your silly remarks and the posts without any sense. Sometime ago I had been asked by the owner of this site to report any cases of trolling... So please stop rubbish my topic. Please note: If you don't agree wyth any info I posted - you are...

“The New York Times” 1942-1945 S..L. Sulzberger // “The New York Times”, USA. “Sergey - fighter of the Red Army" January 4, 1942. The excerpts from the article. "The Russian soldier - stubborn and hardy - showed his fighting qualities to the whole world Ultimately, the current war...

Wow! I admire your ability to change your shoes in a jump. Myth: USSR defeated German exclusively by numerical superiority. (overwhelmed the enemy with corpses) The myth of the gigantic losses of the Red Army during the World War II is one of the key in anti-Soviet and anti-Russian...

Thanks,I hope you are well too. I’m ashamed to ask, but can you clarify: What war did you win? Belgium in World War II Belgium remained neutral from the outbreak of World War II until the German invasion of its territory on May 10, 1940. On May 28, 1940, the Belgian armed forces...

Pavlov's House. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlov%27s_House Sergeant Pavlov became known not only in the USSR, but throughout the world as the commander of a group that recaptured and defended the house 61 on Penzenskaya Street in the destroyed Stalingrad. The defenders of the house for 58...

KV-85 Heavy tank – 148 built In April 1943 the captured German heavy tank Pz.Kpfw.Tiger Ausf.E was shelling from a different guns on a shooting range andIt turned out that the Red Army urgently was needed a tank with a 85 mm gun According to decision of the Decree GKO No. 3289 “On...

The "Royal Tiger" In March 1942 Fuhrer demanded the 6th Department of the Armed Forces to initiate work on creation the tank version gun of the Panzerjägerkanone 43 gun which would receive the KwK 43 L / 71 index. Panzerjägerkanone 43. June 21, 1942 was made the order to study the...

The heavy Tank IS-2 mod 1944. By the end of the summer of 1944, the production of the upgraded IS-2 began in Chelyabinsk. It was IS-2M or IS-2 mod. 1944. However, both names were not used during the war. The reason for this was not the most successful debut of its predecessor - the IS-85...

The Wehrmacht soldiers and the war prisoners # 1 18 October of 1941 near the Kalinin (Tver). A T-34 was immobilized after the T-34 did ram a German self-propelled gun. The Germans open the hatch. One with a crowbar and the other with an ax. Germans are pulling out the tank commander...

Dogs the tank destroyers in the Battle of Stalingrad. In the Battle of Stalingrad, the Germans had a huge advantage in tanks.. The defenders of the city could only fight tanks with grenades and Molotov cocktails. In the fierce battles of the summer of 1941, the Red Army lost more than 70% of...

Heavy Tank IS-122 (the early modification of IS-2) In February 1944, the breakthrough regiments of the Red Army, equipped with KV tanks, were equipped with a new IS tanks. At the same time the regiments were assigned with the name “guards”. The new regiments totaled 375 personnel...