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In order to improve its fighting capabilities, various modifications and design changes were made to the Panzer V, Panther. In March 1944, the first Ausf G was produced. Panther Ausf G became the most numerous model of the Panzer V tanks, and had many new features which were tested on the Eastern Front. These included a [...]
The Battle of Guam was a World War II military engagement which took place on the island of Guam, Mariana Islands, from July 21 to August 8, 1944. The Battle of Guam was fought between the US 3rd Marine Division and the Japanese forces, under the command of Takeshi Takashina. After a fierce battle, the [...]
Operation Anthropoid was the code name for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, who was an SS Officer, chief of the Reich Main Security Office, and Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. It took place in Prague on May 27, 1942 at 10:40 hours, during World War II. Since 1939, Heydrich had been the chief of the [...]
The Battle of Ushant was a World War II naval battle fought between a small fleet of the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) and an Allied task force off the coast of Brittany, in the English Channel. It took place three days after the first Allied landings in Normandy, on June 9, 1944. Background to the Battle [...]
Operation Neptune was the military code name for the Allied airborne insertion behind the German lines, preceding Operation Overlord, which was the amphibious landings on the Normandy beaches carried out by ground troops, during World War II. Operation Neptune was initiated at 00:05 hours on June 6, 1944, when three gliders which carried elements of [...]
The battle-hardened German paratroopers fought ferociously during the Battle of the Normandy. The Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers) 6th Regiment, 2nd Division, under the command of Major Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, was assigned to the Normandy area on June 6, 1944. Although they were heavily outnumbered and lacked the logistics which the Allied had, the German [...]
