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Propagandawerfer 41

The Propagandawerfer 41 consisted of a light 12.26 kg steel tube framework. The base of the launcher was triangular in

On the night of 31 August 1940, the British 20th Destroyer Flotilla – consisting of HMS Express, Esk, Icarus, Intrepid

In February 1940, the German tanker Altmark was returning to Germany with 299 British merchant sailors on board, these were

The beginning of the German war against the USSR, the British and American governments agreed to send unconditional aid to

On the 29th September 1939, soon after the start of the Second World War, Rear Admiral John Godfrey, the Director

Reinhard Heydrich had been the chief of the RSHA since September 1939 and was appointed acting Protector of Bohemia and

Following the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6th 1944, progress inland was to become very slow. To facilitate the

The St Nazaire Raid or Operation Chariot was a British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandy dry dock at

From early 1942, Tirpitz posed a significant threat to the Allied convoys transporting supplies through the Norwegian Sea to the

Fortitude was one of the major elements of Operation Bodyguard, the overall Allied deception strategy for the Normandy landings. Bodyguard’s