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US President Awards WW2-era Female Pilots

C. Peter Chen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:00:00

During WW2, many participant nations tapped into the female population to fill the positions left by the men as the men went to the front lines. In the United States, many women were train...

Theodor Osterkamp

C. Peter Chen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:00:00

Theodor Osterkamp was born in D�ren, Rhineland, Germany. He joined the German Navy Air Corps (Marinefliegerkorps) on 14 Aug 1914 and entered WW1 as an air observer; in this role he was the first German pilot to fly a land-based aircraft to England, United Kingdom on a reconnaissance missi...

Tone-class

C. Peter Chen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:00:00

The Tone-class heavy cruisers were designed to provide long range air scouting for task forces that these ships may serve with. As the result, all of their primary guns were placed forward of the ships so that the entire aft sections could be devoted to aircraft operations. The maximum of eight...

Sturmgesch�tz III

C. Peter Chen — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:00:00

The Sturmgesch�tz (StuG) assault guns were developed in 1936 as the German Army requested armored infantry support vehicles capable of carrying guns large enough to destroy opposing bunkers and other field fortifications. The development was done by Daimler-Benz AG, which mated 7.5-centimeter gu...

Type 2 Ke-To

C. Peter Chen — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:00:00

Type 2 Ke-To light tanks were developed in 1942 from the Type 98 Ke-Ni design, and together with the Type 98 they were meant to replace the Type 95 Ha-Go light tanks that were outclassed by American light and medium tanks. Production for the Type 2 Ke-To design was delayed until 1944, and largel...

US Navy Report of Japanese Raid on Pearl Harbor, Enclosure E, USS Oglala

C. Peter Chen — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:05:54

U.S.S. Oglala

CM4/A16-3/(0100)

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Pearl Harbor, T.H.
December 11, 1941

From:

The Commanding Officer.

To: <...

Interrogation Nav 70, Vice Admiral Paul Wenneker

C. Peter Chen — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:22:09

Editor's Note: Source document referred to "Weneker" which differs from the correct spelling with two Ns, "Wenneker". The incorrect spelling with only one N is retained in this version of the document. Biography WENEKER, Paul H., Vice Admiral, German Navy From ...

UK Considered Using Biological and Chemical Weapons

C. Peter Chen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:00:00

More than a year before the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, British officials had reviewed academic evaluations of conducting chemical warfare against Tokyo. The two chemical agents considered were phosgene and mustard gas, and Tokyo was suggested for its temper...

WW2DB's Guest Contribution at WWARII.com

C. Peter Chen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:00:00

WW2 memorabilia collector Steven Terjeson's WWARII.c...

AMC 35

C. Peter Chen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:00:00

The Automitrailleuse de Combat Renault mod�le 1935 cavalry tanks, or AMC 35 cavalry tanks, were Renault's response to a French Army request for tanks that could reach the maximum road speed of 50 kilometers per hour and were immune to anti-tank guns. The prototype was introduced on 7 Mar ...

Natori

C. Peter Chen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:00:00

Light cruiser Natori was assigned to patrol the Chinese coast soon after her commissioning in 1922, where she remained on and off through the 1920s and 1930s. In 1938, based out of Formosa, she covered the Japanese invasion of Southern China in the Second Sino-Japanese War. On 26 Nov 1941, she ...

Light Armored Car (Aust) 'Rover'

C. Peter Chen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:00:00

When Australia was drawn into WW2, she discovered that the United Kingdom was unable to provide her Commonwealth forces enough armored vehicles. Instead, the United Kingdom led an effort to help the other forces develop their own armored vehicles. In 1941, Australia began developing what eventu...

Ten WW2 Photos in Color

C. Peter Chen — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:00:00

Color photography was introduced to the world prior to the 20th century, but even by the WW2-era, black-and-white photography was still the norm. Although color photos were not extremely rare, they came few and far in between. The result was that, since we typically expect WW2-era photos to be ...

DUKW

C. Peter Chen — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:00:00

The DUKW (popularly pronounced "duck") is a six-wheel-drive amphibious truck that was designed by General Motors Corporation during World War II for transporting goods and troops over land and water and for use approaching and crossing beaches in amphibious attacks.

The DUKW was initially...

US Navy Report of Japanese Raid on Pearl Harbor, Enclosure E, USS New Orleans

C. Peter Chen — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:35:23

CA32/A16-3/
(0140)

U.S.S. New Orleans

(90-an)

Pearl Harbor, T.H.,
December 13, 1941.

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