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  German armored fighting vehicle production during World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pz II 15 9 223 302 77 7 - 633 Pz II (f) - 90 42 23 - - - 155 Marder II - - - 511 212 - - 723 Wespe - - - - 514 144 - 658 Bison - - - 12 - - - 12
Marder II - 75 mm Pak 40 gun on Panzer II chassis (Sd.Kfz.
Tiger II (Panzer VI B, also known as Königstiger) was armed with an 88 mm L/71 gun (Sd.Kfz.
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 Boeing Frontiers Online
During World War I, the airplane's effect on the ground war was nominal.
As the war began with Germany's invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, German "Blitzkrieg" or "Lightning War" tactics exhibited the devastating potential of airpower.
The war's first strategic air campaign was the "Battle of Britain." Beginning in June 1940, the German Air Force or "Luftwaffe" attempted to cripple the Royal Air Force as a prelude to the invasion of England.
www.boeing.com /news/frontiers/archive/2003/june/i_history.html   (682 words)

  
 World War II
During this period the Military establishment of the United States was rehabilitated and the foundation laid for America’s tremendous war production achievement.
German strategy for 1944 rested on the realization that decisive offensives could no longer be mounted in the east and that the growing strength of the Western Allies made almost certain a major invasion attempt before the end of the year.
World War II was a watershed in the history of the Uinted States.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/world_war_2.htm   (11154 words)

  
 Air Force Magazine
The new-design aircraft was the Douglas model 640, a turbojet attack aircraft with a flying boat hull.
The aircraft’s standard folding wings (for carrier use) would be supplemented by a folding tail fin, and it would employ a large rocket booster for launch from a “zero length” catapult.
A post-World War II patent shows a conventional submarine with a large hangar within the pressure hull and an elevator to lift floatplanes to the main deck.
www.afa.org /magazine/March2004/0304sub.asp   (3103 words)

  
 My Scrapbook
World War I was a conflict of treaties and forced hands.
During WWII the company produced gas tanks for aircraft and employed women to replace the men serving in the armed forces.
Gentile was one of the highest-scoring aces; he destroyed 23 enemy aircraft in the air and 7 aircraft on the ground.
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 GI -- World War II Commemoration
During the 1930's, French economic mobilization policy did not support the country's foreign policy, and the General Staff chose to develop the Maginot Line and the navy at the expense of aircraft and tanks.
Many airpower proponents consider that World War II neither proved nor disproved the validity of strategic air doctrines, since the war was conducted as a series of interdependent air, ground, and naval campaigns.
During World War II tremendous new scientific developments--electronics, jet propulsion, missiles and rockets, and nuclear weapons--influenced the conduct and potential of air warfare.
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 GI -- World War II Commemoration
At the end of World War I the victorious nations formed the League of Nations for the purpose of airing international disputes, and of mobilizing its members for a collective effort to keep the peace in the event of aggression by any nation against another or of a breach of the peace treaties.
As the Germans ravaged Poland, the Russians moved into the eastern part of the country and began the process that was to lead to the absorption in 1940 of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania.
The Germans, on the other hand, smarting under their failure in World War I to capitalize on initial breakthroughs of the Allied lines because of lack of sustained power, developed fast, hard-hitting tank-airplane forces and the strategy of the blitzkrieg (lightning war).
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 The Army Air Forces at War
Before bringing down the final curtain on the fiftieth anniversary of World War II, let us pause one more time to reflect on this mighty conflict, which is without parallel in history.
In 1940, German air attacks in the Battle of Britain came perilously close to opening the door for invasion forces to cross the English channel.
Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production, said that Allied strategic airpower was the equivalent of a "new front" for Germany, tying up 10,000 guns, hundreds of thousands of forces, and about half the electronics industry.
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 German Espionage and Sabotage Against the U.S. in World War II
During the early months of 1942 active steps were taken to correlate this information, identify those agents who were still unknown, and persuade local police authorities to arrest, intern, or deport them.
During 1942 the dominant figure was Capt. Dietrich Niebuhr, the Naval Attaché, who had as his two principal assistants Hans Napp and Ottomar Mueller, and also enlisted the services of certain individuals who had escaped from Brazil at the time of the arrests there.
Throughout the war the Germans sought military, political and economic information of any and all types, and the broad assignments given agents may well be one reason for the failure to obtain specific data of high quality.
www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq114-1.htm   (5121 words)

  
 Hugo Junkers
Convinced of the merit of internally-braced, cantilever aircraft design, he had his first such plane in the air by 1915 and several successful all-metal models were produced during World War I. Postwar, he established an aircraft factory at Dessau in 1919 and devoted his efforts to commercial aircraft design and production.
During the same year, he built the J-38, a 41 passenger plane, the largest capacity production commercial airliner to date.
Remote areas of the world are familiar with the famed J-52, which was first built as a single-engine, freight plane.
www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/junkers.htm   (414 words)

  
 HotDog Junior Version 1.5 Document
During the plight of WWII, an imense arsenal of aircraft was built.
Instead, it was eventually sold to the French for use in the Indo- Chinese war against the communist Viet-Minh.
The P-47, which was one of America's best fighter planes during the war, made its inaugural flight in 1941.
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 Guardian Unlimited | World dispatch | Germany's forgotten victims
But in the immediate post-war period, the German victims of British bombing were scarcely mentioned, being overshadowed by the far greater evil of the Holocaust.
Friedrich believes that most Germans refused to discuss what had happened because they regarded the British destruction of their cities as a sort of retribution for the crimes of the Nazi era.
During the sixties, Friedrich moved to Berlin, took part in the '68 movement, and became a Trotskyite radical.
www.guardian.co.uk /elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1068437,00.html   (1327 words)

  
 NTI: Country Overviews: Egypt: Missile Overview
During an interview that year, Egyptian Armed Forces Chief-of-Staff Lieutenant General Mohammed Ali Fahmy stressed the increasing tactical and strategic importance of ballistic missiles on the modern battlefield and confirmed that Egypt was committed to a multiple source policy on future weapons procurement.
During the late 1970s Egypt is believed to have made the decision to expand beyond the simple maintenance stage and into the development of product-improved versions of both the FROG-7A and Scud B. To this end, Egypt approached the PRC and DPRK seeking cooperation and assistance.
During World War II Dr. Wilhem Voss was general director of both the Skoda arms factory in Czechoslovakia and the Hermann Goring Steel Mills.
www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/Egypt/Missile   (13366 words)

  
 World War Two
Sold by the U.S. government, the "war" bonds raised money for the war and helped the bond purchasers feel they were doing their part for the war effort.
With the creation of 17 million new jobs during the war, workers were afforded the opportunity to pay off old debts, as well as to begin saving some of their earnings.
After the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945, and the Second World War came to an end.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/wwarii/wwarii.html   (422 words)

  
 World War Two Aircraft
You can read here about their technical development and production, see photographs, read contemporary pilots' descriptions, see detailed data tables about them, etc. It is a vast subject, with innumerable details; please do not hesitate to email me or note in the Forum any errors, discrepancies, or questions.
The Navy's Fighting Squadrons in World War Two changed frequently, and have always confused me. Based on Barrett Tillman's excellent book, I have prepared this summary table for them, showing deployments, CO, top ace, carrier, and number of aces.
This study concludes with comparisons of the eleven types in terms of program milestones, aircraft drag, power available at various altitudes, speed, climb, rolling and turning, acceleration, and diving performance, as well as general evaluations by World War II pilots.
www.acepilots.com /planes/main.html   (754 words)

  
 Category:World War II German aircraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are articles related to aircraft of World War II German Luftwaffe.
List of weapons of military aircraft of Germany during World War Two
World War II military equipment of Germany
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:World_War_II_German_aircraft   (124 words)

  
 World War II German Advertising
German dentists work together untiringly with their European colleagues for the well-being of their fellow human beings.
Hauff film and Hauff plates, long-tested and improved during the war, will be ready to capture these coming happy memories of peace.
During the war, the production of Efasit foot care products must be reserved primarily for German soldiers on all fronts.
www.calvin.edu /academic/cas/gpa/ads.htm   (932 words)

  
 IEEEVM: Tanks in World War II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
General Rommel, appointed commander of the German troops in Africa in 1941, gained the nickname “Desert Fox” for his daring surprise attacks on the enemy.
German tanks, even though manufactured by large German companies such as Daimler-Benz and Krupp Steel, were never made in quantities that approached American production.
Allied troops also prevented the Germans from taking Stalingrad, Russia by a counterattack of over 500 Soviet T-34 tanks, leading to the battle of Kursk in 1943, which is remembered as the largest tank battle of the war.
www.ieee-virtual-museum.org /collection/tech.php?taid=&id=2345923&lid=1   (602 words)

  
 Fighter Aircraft and Aces of World War II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Source: "World War II The Encyclopedia of the War Years 1941-1945" by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen, Random House publication ©1996
Germany's main fighter throughout the war was the excellent Bf 109.
Production of the Me 410 ceased in September of '44 after 1,160 had been built.
www.ww2guide.com /fighters.shtml   (554 words)

  
 The Home Front During World War II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
War Production Board halted non-essential building to conserve materials for war purposes.
Farm income doubled, as in World War I. Victory gardens were replanted.
Japanese were portrayed as subhuman, partly in response to atrocities committed by the Japanese and partly because of race hatred.
www.polytechnic.org /faculty/gfeldmeth/ww2home.html   (458 words)

  
 World War II Guide to Air Power   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
World War II was a war no country was fully prepared for - even Germany.
The Combined Allied Bombing Offensive did hinder and interfere with German production and war aims but by far the biggest dividends came from concentrated attacks on transportation centers (railroad marshaling yards, bridges, and canals) and the sustained bombing of oil facilities.
It helps to realize that 60% of the tonnage of bombs dropped on Germany were dropped during the last nine months of the war and with far greater accuracy than earlier missions.
www.ww2guide.com   (448 words)

  
 NCHS - Fort Fisher: World War II
Nor is this the first time that the noise of war has broken the peace of these lowlands, still haunted by the memories of Indians and pirates, slavers and Spanish marauders, Regulators and Taxmasters, Green and Cornwallis, and climaxed by the greatest naval bombardment in the world's history at Fort Fisher.
The area surrounding the old Civil War fort was soon dotted with the trappings of a modern military facility, and expansion would continue throughout its tenure as a firing range.
The nation's war effort was in full swing, and 1943 brought a significant change in the use of its resources.
www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hs/fisher/ww2/ww2.htm   (2597 words)

  
 EconPapers: Demystifying the German "Armament Miracle" During World War II. New Insights from the Annual Audits of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
We question the received view by showing that in the German aircraft industry the crucial changes that triggered the upswing in aircraft production already occurred before World War II.
The government decided in 1938 that aircraft producers had to concentrate on a few different types, and in 1937 that cost-plus contracts were replaced with fixed price contracts.
What followed was not a sudden production miracle but a continuous development which was fuelled first by learning-by-doing and then by the ongoing growth of the capital and labor endowment.
econpapers.repec.org /paper/egcwpaper/905.htm   (298 words)

  
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It was a shock to the Allied air forces, which had deployed into these regions only the more obsolescent of its ‘modern’ monoplane fighters in the belief that the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force had not yet fielded a ‘modern’ monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear.
GEORGE is the unlikely nickname for the best Japanese naval fighter produced in quantity during World War II.
Due to economic and production difficulties, the Italian fighter was never produced in very large numbers.
www.airplane-world.addr.com /IXO.htm   (413 words)

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