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#OTD in 1941 the Chelyabinsk Tractor Factory and Leningrad Kirov Factory merged to form the Chelyabinsk Kirov Factory. ChKZ became one of the USSR's most prominent tank factories and the core of the industrial giant that came to be known as Tankograd. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

A GBTU meeting was held #OTD in 1943 to discuss what upgrades need to be made to the T-43 to keep it competitive. The thicker armour and larger gun required pushed the weight past reasonable limits for a medium tank, resulting in its cancellation. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

5 October 1943

Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.

#WW2 #History #HistoryMatters

A RAAF Vickers Wellington Mk XIV of 458 Squadron on the tarmac at RAF North Front, silhouetted against the light of searchlights around the Rock of Gibraltar during a night exercise in 1945. 🇬🇧 🇬🇮

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📷 Kenneth Busuttil

T-34 production was at risk in 1941 due to a shortage of V-2 diesel engines. #OTD in 1941 the use of supercharged M-17 gasoline engines was temporarily authorized. 943 tanks were built this way before supplies recovered in the spring of 1942. #tanks #history #WWII #WW2

A U.S. Marine in the jungle with a M1919 .30 cal Browning Machine Gun on Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in December, 1943.

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#OTD in 1944 Major General John R. Deane wrote to his colleagues in the USSR inquiring about any information on the newly discovered "Tiger Imperial" tank. The Americans only captured a Tiger Ausf.B for study later that year. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

October 1943: Residents of Patrimonio, Corsica, greet Spahis and Goumiers from the 2nd Group of Moroccan Tabors (2e GTM) and 4th Moroccan Spahi Regiment (4e RSM), both part of the 4th Moroccan Mountain Division (4e DMM).

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#OTD in 1944 Germany's Tank Commission decided to rationalize production to just three tank chassis: the Jagdpanzer 38D, Panther, and Tiger II. Any dreams of superheavy "wonder weapons" that Germany could have fielded in 1945 or 1946 died here. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

If you walked away from #WW2 & the #Holocaust with the mind set that you were “chosen”, “superior to”, or “better than” anyone else around you = then you didn’t learn anything about WW2 or the Holocaust.

Three months and over 1,000 pages later I have finished Jon Parshall's Crux of War.

It may be one of the best books on #WW2 I have ever read. Certainly one of the most enjoyable, even considering its length. It is whimsical in the way it engages with the reader, self-depreciating at times.

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