Here’s a good chart that shows how much money the Germans spent on their tanks during WWII: The Germans built FANTASTIC tanks (can you tell that I’m a fan?), but they were engineered within an inch of their life; as you can see, even the lowly Panth…
He was probably a little taller than that, if not by much. Below we find pictures of Stalin with US President Harry Truman and Sir Winston Churchill. Truman stood about 5′9″ and Churchill was about 5′6″ or 5′7″ so I would say Stalin can’t have been …
In truth, the Sherman was a solid match for the vast majority of German tanks. This isn’t even going into the other advantages the Sherman enjoyed Anything less than a Panzer 4 H model was noticeably outmatched by the Sherman tank in performance. Co…
I’d have to give ‘last German holdouts’ prize to the 11 men in the weather forecast unit under the command of lieutenant Wilhelm Dege stranded at a weather station on the Norwegian island of Nordausandet (near Spitsbergen), in the arctic. They had b…
