Pzw 39
Light tank designed and produced by the Czechoslovak company ČKD-Praga for the Swiss army. Between 1938 and 1939, 24 units were produced and served in Switzerland under the designation Panzerwagen 39 until the early 1950s.
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Boeing YP-29A
The Boeing P-29 and XF7B-1 were an attempt to produce a more advanced version of the highly successful P-26. Although slight gains were made in performance, the U.S. Army Air Corps and U.S. Navy did not order the aircraft.
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ARA Vienticinco de Mayo vs. Task Force 317
The Argentine fleet did not play a major role in the Falklands War in 1982, despite initial bold intentions. Right at the beginning of the conflict, it was planned to attack aircraft from the aircraft carrier ARA Vienticinco de Mayo on Task Force 317, which was to eliminate its British counterparts, and thus air cover. It almost came to the first battle of aircraft carriers since the end of World War II, but everything was ultimately decided by British nuclear submarines.
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Doolittle's raid on Tokyo
... or when the bombs first fell on Tokyo
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Ivan Bazilevič Kňažikovský
In his time he was one of the most famous aviators of the young Czechoslovak Republic. Although even then he was a bit in the shadow of the first king of the air, František Malkovský. They both flew a red-coloured aviator, both died in it just a few months after each other in 1930.
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György Debrődy - Hungarian fighter ace
In the 1944 fighting, Hungarian fighter pilots had to fight against multiple enemy overwhelming forces. Comradeship was the factor that could ensure survival in seemingly hopeless battles and situations. In May 1944, Lieutenant-General György Debrődy had already won his 16th air victory, and his good fortune always saved him from death.
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Armies in the Pacific War 1879-1883
The War of the Pacific, also known as the Saltpeter War and by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought over Chilean claims on coastal Bolivian territory in the Atacama Desert, the war ended with a Chilean victory, which gained for the country a significant amount of resource-rich territory from Peru and Bolivia. The Chilean Army took Bolivia's nitrate-rich coastal region, and Peru was defeated by the Chilean Navy.
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AMX-32
French main battle tank developed by AMX and APX during the late 1970s as an export tank to fit in a specific market niche of nations with smaller defence budgets. While six prototypes were built, it failed to garner interest for foreign sales.
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Moro Rebellion
After the Spanish-American War of 1898, the whole of the Philippines fell to the USA, including the south inhabited by the Muslim Moors, which even the Spanish failed to fully control. The Moorish rebellion against the new masters lasted almost fifteen years.
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Bloody battles of the 7th Mechanized Corps
Description of the advance of the tankers of the 7th Mechanized Corps during the liberation of Czechoslovakia from the pen of the well-known author Petr "Dolin" Dolezal.
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Miles M-25 Martinet
The planes of the Second World War were not just combat and still attract the most attention machines. There were also dozens, of lesser-known types known to the general public, made in thousands of pieces for all levels of training in a complex war system. The quality of training was very important and in the final phase of the war one of the decisive factors.
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Josef Hamšík - army aviator and resistance fighter
Air observer of the K. u K. Luftfahrtruppe and pilot of the Czechoslovak Military Air Force
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Eduard Kokojty - two-time president of an unrecognized country
Former President of the Republic of South Ossetia, unilaterally declared in the northern part of Georgia. He is a strong supporter of South Ossetia's independence from Georgia. Before the 2006 presidential elections, he declared that the Georgian-Ossetian conflict was not inter-ethnic but political, caused by Georgian efforts to place the norms of Western democracy above "traditional Caucasian law".
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Vasa - Swedish Titanic
The first voyage of the largest and most beautiful ship of its time took an even shorter time than the voyage of the legendary Titanic.
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T28 Super Heavy Tank
The T28 Super Heavy Tank was an American heavily armored tank/self-propelled gun designed for the United States Army during World War II. It was originally designed to break through German defenses of the Siegfried Line, and was later considered as a possible participant in the planned invasion of the Japanese mainland.
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Renault FT in the Czechoslovak Army
The first requirement for the purchase of these tanks is a telegram of the commander of the eastern group of Czechoslovak troops, French General Hennocque, dated July 3, 1919 in connection with the fighting against the Hungarian Bolshevik troops.
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HMS Dorsetshire
HMS Dorsetshire was a heavy cruiser serving in the British Royal Navy during World War II. She was one of two units of the class of the same name, which constituted the third group of the large thirteen-man County class. Its sister ship was the heavy cruiser HMS Norfolk. The cruiser fought in World War II and was one of the victors over Bismarck. She was sunk on 5 April 1942 by Japanese aircraft during the Japanese raid into the Indian Ocean.
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Life of women in concentration camps in the Trutnov region 1942 - 1945
During the World War Two there was a few subsidiary concentration camps established on the ground of Czech Republic. These camps used to be usually established around the borders. This thesis is dealing with branches of the concentration camp Gross-Rosen in the area of Trutnov. In these camps there was young and most of the time Jewish women imprisoned. Thesis is describing the live in camps: Poříčí, Žačléř a Bernartice using the memories of imprisoned women. This theses will guide us trough the topics mentioned above since the very beginning of subsidiary camps until the time of exemption.
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Ferdinand Ďurčanský
On the day of the establishment of the Slovak State (14 March 1939) he was appointed Slovak Foreign Minister (fourth government of Jozef Tiso and government of Vojtech Tuka). As Foreign Minister of the newly established state, he built up a functioning office and in a short time established embassies in many countries of the world. He retained his government post until July 1940, when he was dismissed from his post at the Salzburg negotiations under pressure from Adolf Hitler. However, he continued to be one of the ardent supporters of the clerical-fascist regime in Slovakia. After the war, he fled to Austria, and from there to Rome via Switzerland.
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Austrian Emperor Charles I
Charles I or Karl I was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, King of Croatia, King of Bohemia, and the last of the monarchs belonging to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine to rule over Austria-Hungary.
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