WW2DB RSS Service - Recently Updated http://ww2db.com Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:42:25 WW2DB.com RSS Generator http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=235 <p>By late 1943, German occupation forces had experienced several major uprisings, such as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Apr 1943, the uprising in Treblinka concentration camp in Aug 1943, and most recently the uprising in the Sobibor concentration camp on 14 Oct 1943. Fearful of another major upri... C. Peter Chen Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:00:00 http://ww2db.com/news.php?news_id=140 <p>The World War II Database is celebrating its fifth birthday today! As the site content grew steadily, so had our readership in the past year, which more than doubled. Below is a quick summary of what you can find on the website as of today, with the growth since last anniversary in parenthesis.... C. Peter Chen Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:00:00 http://ww2db.com/vehicle_spec.php?q=315 <p>The Russian Front battles during 1941 soon revealed that the Soviet light tanks such as the T-60 and newer T-70 (many thousands of which had been produced prior to the German invasion) were virtually useless on the battlefield. It was therefore decided to combine the chassis of the T-70, already... C. Peter Chen Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:00:00 http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=553 <p>Hermann Hoth was born in Neuruppin, Germany to an army medical officer. He joined the Germany Army in 1903. During WW1, he was promoted to the rank of captain and won both classes of the Iron Cross award for bravery. During the inter-war years, he remained in the Germany military. In 1935, he... C. Peter Chen Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:00:00 http://ww2db.com/read.php?read_id=147 <p>As the author Donald Nijboer suggested, Seafire fighters and A6M Zero fighters were never meant to meet in combat. Spitfire fighters were designed for the Royal Air Force; the Seafire variant was only developed when the Royal Navy lacked an effective carrier fighter. Meanwhile, Zero fighters we... C. Peter Chen Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:00:00 http://ww2db.com/doc.php?q=248 (Translation.) There is little to be said as regards German-Polish relations. Here, too, the Peace Treaty of Versailles-of course intentionally-inflicted a most severe wound on Germany. The strange way in which the Corridor giving Poland access to the sea was marked out was meant, above all, to p... C. Peter Chen Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:00:00 http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=89 <p>The village of Nomonhan sat near the border in an area disputed between Mongolia and the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in northeastern China. The Japanese argued that the river Khalkhin Gol was the border, while the Mongolians insisted that the border was 16 kilometers east of the river, ju... C. Peter Chen Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:00:00 http://ww2db.com/weapon.php?q=17 <p>The Model 1918 submachine guns designed by Tuillio Marengoni were only the second model of submachine guns to enter WW1 service, and were the first model to be standard issue. By the WW2 period, they were venerable, but remained in use during combat in Abyssinia, Spain, and North Africa.</p>... C. Peter Chen Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:00:00 http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=552 <p>Arthur William Fadden was the son of a Presbyterian police officer which was residing in Ingham, Queensland, Australia when young Arthur was born. Educated in state schools, as the boy matured he pursued a career in accounting working as a clerk, his first administrative post being the Assistant... C. Peter Chen Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:00:00 http://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=107 <p>Richelieu was the lead ship of her class of two battleships. The Richelieu-class ships were unusual in that all of the main turrets are in the forward part of the ships; this was a characteristic inherited from the Dunkirque-class battleship design which she was developed upon.</p> <p>When Germ... C. Peter Chen Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:00:00 http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=551 <p>Herschel Feibel Grynszpan was born in Hanover, Germany to Polish Jews Sendel and Rivka Grynszpan who had moved from Poland to Germany in 1911. He attended a public school until the age of 14. His parents began to arrange to move him to Palestine, meanwhile, he studied at a rabbinical seminary i... C. Peter Chen Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:00:00 http://ww2db.com/doc.php?q=251 The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain): The right hon. gentleman the leader of the Opposition asked me this morning whether I could make a statement as to the European situation. As I said this morning, His Majesty's Government have no official confirmation of the rumours of any projected attack on Po... C. Peter Chen Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:00:08 http://ww2db.com/doc.php?q=247 My Lord, Berlin, May 28, 1939. I PAID a short visit to Field-Marshal Göring at Karinhall yesterday. 2. Field-Marshal Göring, who had obviously just been talking to someone else on the subject, began by inveighing against the attitude which was being adopted in England towards everything German... C. Peter Chen Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:00:00 http://ww2db.com/news.php?news_id=139 <p><a href="/image.php?image_id=324"><img src="/images/imagemagick/tmb_battle_holocaust3.jpg" border="0" align="right"></a>Polish police were informed that the "Arbeit macht frei" ("work makes one free") sign at the entrance of the Auschwitz Memorial Museum had been stolen. The museum remains open,... C. Peter Chen Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:00:00 http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=547 <p>Mariya Dolina was born in Sharovka, Omsk Oblast, Russia to peasants. In 1932, her family moved back to Ukraine, where her parents were originally from. She learned how to fly at the Kherson Flying School in Southern Ukraine and the Engels Military Flying School in Russia. In Jul 1941, at the r... C. Peter Chen Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:00:00