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Soviet KV-1 Recovered from River Bed

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 17:30

Russian soldiers of the 90th Special Search Battalion of the Western Military District, along with staff from the Museum of the Battle for Leningrad, have recovered a KV-1 tank from the Neva River near Leningrad. Thankfully no crew remains were found, thus meaning they likely escaped, and the tank itself is in relatively good condition. It is expected the tank will be able to be fully restored and be used in parades as a living historical artifact.

The KV-1 was the primary heavy tank in the Soviet arsenal when Hitler launched his attack on the Soviet Union in June of 1941. No German tank,

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New Pictures of Carnage at Dunkirk

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Tue, 11/15/2011 - 17:43

A slew of new pictures of the often forgotten dark side of the Dunkirk rescue operation, taken by a German soldier after the battle, provide chilling evidence of the scope of the disaster suffered by Allied forces following the German invasion of Western Europe in May, 1940.

Within ten day of the German invasion, tanks from the 2nd Panzer Division had crossed the Somme River and reached the English Channel at Abbeville, completing the encirclement of approximately 1.7 million British, French, Dutch, and Belgian soldiers in an enormous pocket 120 miles long and 72 miles wide.

For their part,

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Happy Veteran's Day

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 14:46

On May 13, 1938 an Act of Congress established Armistice Day as a national holiday, following up on President Woodrow Wilson's November 11, 1919 proclamation of the first Armistice Day honoring American veterans who fought in WWI. Though WWI did not formally end until the Treay of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919; in the US, Armistice Day, with the armistice marking the temporary end of combat on November 11, 1918, is widely regarded as the end of the First World War.

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Happy 236th Birthday US Marine Corps

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 14:09

Today the United States Marine Corps celebrates 236 years of protecting US interests abroad. It has been a busy 236 years: from seizing Britain's Fort Nassau, Bahamas in March of 1776 during the Revolutionary War - the Marines first amphibious operation; to protecting US merchant shipping from pirates and foreign navies in the early years of the republic; to playing a leading role in the US march to victory against Japan in WWII's Pacific Theater of Operations; to today - with operations ongoing around the world.

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Archaeological Survey on Gallipoli Battlefield

Submitted by SteveMerc

on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:04

In April of 1915 soldiers from the British Army and Commonwealth, including the Australia-New Zealand Army Corps, and French Army and Empire, landed on the Gallipoli penninsula in an effort to open the route to Russia and seize Constantinople. There they faced Turkish troops from the Ottoman Empire in a brutal campaign fought in rugged terrain featuring extensive trench systems separated at certain points by as few as 10 to 20 yards. An ongoing archaeological survey has uncovered not only artificacts from ths First World War battle, but also has led to a greater understanding of how the men

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