Creation and Campaigns of the 5th SS Panzer division Wiking. Designations, commanders, creation, Russia 1941, Caucasus 1942-43, Eastern Front 1944 and Hungary 1945. Wiking-Division The Wiking-Division was the first foreign […]
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Strength and Organization of the Wehrmacht volunteers (Hiwis, legionnaires), Cossack and Liberation Army (ROA) Russia. Russian volunteers with the German Army The continuous drain of German military personnel brought about
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German Air Force (Luftwaffe) and Airborne Forces for the campaign in the West (May 1940) and Norway. Here to German Orders of Battle for the campaign in the West, May
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The Second and Third Soviet Counteroffensive in the Winter of 1941-42, and the Orders of Battle of the Wehrmacht of 22 April 1942. Here to the previous part: German Orders
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The Last Japanese Soldiers to Surrender After the Second World War: A Historical Overview. The Japanese soldiers who continued to fight for years after Japan’s surrender After World War II
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Axis Eastern Front allies: Spanish ‘Blue’ division and Volunteer Air Force, Croatian Army and Air Force, pro-Axis Serbian troops. Spain Spanish Volunteer Units In return for German help in the
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The Tiger Battalions of the German Army in the Second World War 1943 to 1945. Since the first Tiger tanks appeared on the battlefields of the Second World War, they
Pilot Training of the German Air Force in the Second World War (Part I). Pilot Training of the Luftwaffe before 1942. Pilot Training of the German Air Force in WW2
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Orders of Battle, strength of the Army divisions and tank inventory of the Wehrmacht at time of campaign in Poland. The Polish campaign of 1939 The Polish campaign of 1939,
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German Orders of Battle on 5 April 1941 at the attack on Yugoslavia and Greece. German Army, Airborne Forces and Luftwaffe, Divisions, Corps, Armies and Army Groups. Balkans Campaign The
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Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 33 (3rd Hungarian) – 38 (Nibelungen). Several of this last nominal ‘divisions’ of the Waffen-SS fielded no more than a few hundred ill-equipped men scrambled
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History of the 116th Panzer Division: formation and operations in 1944-45 of the ‘Greyhound’ Division. The 116th Panzer Division, as well as the Panzer Lehr Division, proved, when new formations
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German Orders of Battle of 11 May 1942 and the Planning of the Summer Offensive (Operation Blue). Here to the previous part: German Orders of Battle April 1942 and Soviet
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Strength and organization of the Imperial Army and Air Force 1939 and 1940, before the Japanese entry in the Second World War. Japanese Army before WW2 The Japanese Army was
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German Orders of Battle at the time of the tank battle of Kursk and the Allied invasion of Sicily from July 7, 1943. The German Orders of Battle and distribution
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German Kriegsmarine (Navy) at the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939. Ship classes and warships, organization. Here to Part I: Fleets 1939 The Treaty of Versailles strictly
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Deployment of the armed forces of the Axis Minors (Italy, Finland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia) by theatres of war in summer 1942. Italian, Finnish, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Slovakian
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Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 7 (Prinz Eugen) – 12 (Hitlerjugend). The Waffen-SS divisions from this and the previous page were Germany’s most effective troops of WW2. Waffen-SS divisions 4-6.
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Military ranks, designations and description in the Second World War in international comparison. Ranks in the National Armies and Air Forces of World War II and the promotion system in
Strength and aircraft of the Luftflotten at the beginning of the Battle for Stalingrad. Orders of Battle for the German Air fleets, Geschwader, Groups, aircraft types and number of planes.
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