At 6pm on August 23rd 1942 the assault on the Soviet city of Stalingrad began by Army Group 6 under the Command of Colonel General Friedrich Paulus. However that had not been the start of the destruction; this began with air strikes from German Luftflotte 4. Between the 25th and 31st of July around 1,000…
The M3 White Scout Car was first sent into action in the Philippines, and would see action amongst the cavalry units of the US army in the Africa campaign. Based on a commercial truck design by the White company, the M3 was fitted with light armour. The vehicle featured a good distribution of armour around…
Following its release last Friday, it’s time to take a closer look at the RSO/01 Tractor! Warlord writer, Sam Phillips tells us more… View in Store The Raupenschlepper Ost (Caterpillar Tracked East) was a fully tracked lightweight tractor primarily designed to tow light to medium artillery. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union, they found that…
The Soviet Naval forces fought on land in many of the large scale Soviet actions, such as at Leningrad and Sevastopol. The Brigada Morskoi Pekhoty was formed from the grizzled veterans fighting against the Germans earlier in the war. Armed with rifles, LMGs and submachine guns, they were tasked to defend naval bases and pressed…
The Soviets preferred method of winning a war was numbers, and lots of them. Large numbers of soldiers were trained, and Russian factories turned out incredible numbers of guns, tanks and vehicles to be thrown at the German battle lines. Here are a selection of Russia’s most well-known and key anti-tank weapons from the war:…
“We must engage the enemy in battle unceasingly; we must ‘write off’ his troops; and generally we must kill Germans.” Such were the stated aims put forth by General Bernard Montgomery in the run-up to Operation Goodwood, to date the largest tank battle in the history of the British army. There can be little doubt…
On the 17th September 1944, preceding a bombing run from the Allies, the first British units landed near Arnhem. The British 1st Airborne Division, commanded by Major General Roy Urquhart landed some distance from their objective. The 2nd Parachute Battalion managed to get into the town relatively unscathed, despite delays in getting to the north…
Skorzeny was an officer of the much feared Waffen-SS, and was wounded on the Eastern Front. Whilst he was recuperating he studied unconventional methods of warfare and soon became a supporter of special forces operating behind enemy lines. He was put in charge of training such units and was placed in charge of several operations…
The Russian Snipers proved to be some of the best of the war, scoring multiple kills and having numerous sniper aces. Unusually, the Red Army fielded many female snipers and they proved their worth with many confirmed victims. Some would go on to lead entire companies of snipers, such as Nina Lobkovskaya at the Battle…
Michael Wittmann was one of Germany’s most famous ‘panzer aces’ of World War II. During his career he was credited with destroying 138 enemy tanks and 132 anti-tank guns. He fought throughout the war until his death. During the battle of France and invasion of Greece he commanded a Stug III assault gun (Sturmgeschutz III)….
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