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Richard Petrow, The Bitter Years
David Greentree, Heroes of Telemark: Sabotaging Hitler’s Atomic Bomb
Clips:
1948 film Kampen om tungtvannet
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Music:
“Crypto” by Kevin MacLeod
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“Hitman” by Kevin MacLeod
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June 29, 2020
Operation Gunnerside: The Mission to Stop Germany’s Atomic Bomb
June 28, 2020
British 1942 Prototype Simplified…Enfield?
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In 1942, the British government instituted a development program to design a new simplified rifle to replace the No4 MkI Lee Enfield. The CSAD (Central Small Arms Department) came up with a design using a quite simple receiver machined form a small steel billet. It was a rifle wholly distinct form the Enfield, although both were chambered for the .303 British cartridge. The simplified rifle used a front-locking bolt, a simplified cocking piece, and had a magazine holding just 6 rounds. The sights were a simple 300/600 yard rear aperture, and a crude spike bayonet could be fitted either forward for use or rearward for storage.
The project never got as far as serial production, or even field trials as far as I can tell, and only a handful of prototypes were made.
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June 27, 2020
Tank Chats #74 Panzer I | The Tank Museum
The Tank Museum
Published 10 May 2019Panzer I was the first tank mass produced by Germany, as part of their drive to re-arm in the 1930’s before the Second World War.
The Tank Museum’s Panzer IB tank is the only known commander’s model of the Panzer I.
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June 26, 2020
“Ghost Division” – Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division – Sabaton History 073 [Official]
Sabaton History
Published 25 Jun 2020In the night of 17 May 1940, confusing reports were reaching French High Command. They spoke of what was thought impossible: The German Army had broken through the Maginot Line in the north. Scattered and panicked soldiers spoke of a “Division Fantôme” – a Ghost Division! It was Generalmajor Erwin Rommel’s 7th Panzer Division that was wreaking havoc in the French rear. In an unauthorized push, Rommel had seized the opportunity to rush the French fortress garrisons by a surprise armor attack straight from the move. Now in open space and with the night sky illuminated by burning French tanks and trucks, it was crucial for the Ghost Division to exploit its tactical victory. Alone and cut off like an island in a sea of enemies, this was easier said than done.
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The Italian Tank Meme
Potential History
Published 27 Jul 2018Italian tanks and why they were what they were.
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June 25, 2020
20mm Lahti L39 Antitank Rifle (Shooting & History)
Forgotten Weapons
Published 12 Sep 2016Sold for $10,350.
The Lahti L39 was the Finnish answer to the need for an anti-tank rifle, developed just before the Winter War. The rifle was created by noted Finnish designed Aimo Lahti, who had pressed for it to use a 13.2mm cartridge. However, arguments for using a 20x138B cartridge won out, based on hopes to use that cartridge in both antitank and antiaircraft roles, as well as testing that showed the 20mm projectile to have greater terminal effect.
The L39 was not available for use in the Winter War (having been adopted barely 2 months before the Russian attack), but was used extensively in the Continuation War. While improved tank armor quickly became thick enough to protect against the round, it was used for a variety of anti material roles, attacking machine gun positions, bunkers, light vehicles, and more. In 1944, an anti-aircraft version was also produced, firing in full auto and using 15-round magazines.
Today, ammunition is available from a few companies, typically using lathe-turned new cases and surplus 20mm Vulcan projectiles.
June 24, 2020
BESAL: Britain’s Emergency Simplified Light Machine Gun
Forgotten Weapons
Published 8 Aug 2017Armament Research Services (ARES) is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy, offering expertise and analysis to a range of government and non-government entities in the arms and munitions field. For detailed photos of the guns in this video, don’t miss the ARES companion blog post:
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The BESAL is a simplified redesign of the Bren light machine gun, developed by a BSA employee named Faulkner. The design of the gun was motivated by the disastrous retreat of the British Army from Dunkirk in 1940, where they abandoned a huge amount of weaponry and war material, including most of their Bren guns.
The Bren gun was in production only as the BSA factory, which was at great risk to German bombing — and the Bren included a number of complex parts that could not be effectively put into production elsewhere in the UK on short notice. It was with this in mind that Faulkner designed the BESAL, which used much simpler components which could be made in a great number of small shops. Decentralized production would have made it a much more resilient process in the case of invasion (similar to German small arms production late in the war).
By the time the BESAL prototypes were built, tested, and approved as being reliable and effective, however, the immediate threat of invasion had passed and the Bren was in production at the Inglis factory in Canada as well as at BSA. The BESAL design was shelved for use in case it became necessary again, but it never was.
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June 23, 2020
Defending Britain with a Bayonet | Hobart’s Pike | The Tank Museum
The Tank Museum
Published 24 May 2020Director Richard Smith looks at Percy Hobart and the incredible weapon he was issued on joining the Home Guard at the start of WW2; a bayonet welded to a pole. Major General Percy Hobart commanded the 79th Armoured Division and gave the revolutionary, specialised tanks used on D-Day their nickname “Hobart’s Funnies”.
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June 21, 2020
Burma Victory (1945)
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Made in 1945, BURMA VICTORY is a British documentary about the Burma Campaign during World War Two. It was directed by Roy Boulting. The introduction to the film outlines the geography and climate of Burma, and the extent of the Japanese conquests. The film then describes the establishment of the South East Asian Command (SEAC) under Mountbatten, “a born innovator and firm believer in the unorthodox”, and gives a comparatively detailed account of subsequent military events, including the Battle of Imphal-Kohima and Slim’s drive on Mandalay, Arakan landings, the northern offensive of the Americans and Chinese under Stilwell, and the roles played by Chindits and Merrill’s Marauders. The film ends with the capture of Rangoon and the Japanese surrender. The film focuses on the difficulties of climate, terrain, the endemic diseases of dysentery, malaria, etc., the vital role of air supplies, the shattering of the myth of Japanese invincibility and the secondary role of the Burma campaign in overall Allied strategy.
This film represents a British look at the campaign and was the pet project of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia, and he planned it as a joint Anglo-American production. But this scheme foundered over the inability of the U.S. leadership and British to agree on the main theme of the film. The British wanted it to concentrate on the drive southwards to liberate Burma. The Americans, anxious not to be seen to be participating in the restoration of the British Empire, wanted to emphasize the heroic building of the Ledo Road and the drive northwards to relieve the Chinese. In the end the two sides went their separate ways. The Americans produced the Ronald Reagan narrated film The Stilwell Road and the British made Burma Victory. It was the final production of the Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) and was directed, like Desert Victory (1943), by Roy Boulting. Not released until after the war was over, it was hailed and promoted as “the real Burma film”.
The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II was fought primarily between the forces of the British Empire and China, with support from the United States, against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Empire forces peaked at around 1,000,000 land, naval and air forces, and were drawn primarily from British India, with British Army forces (equivalent to 8 regular infantry divisions and 6 tank regiments), 100,000 East and West African colonial troops, and smaller numbers of land and air forces from several other Dominions and Colonies. The Burmese Independence Army was trained by the Japanese and spearheaded the initial attacks against British Empire forces.
The campaign had a number of notable features. The geographical characteristics of the region meant that factors like weather, disease and terrain had a major effect on operations. The lack of transport infrastructure placed an emphasis on military engineering and air transport to move and supply troops, and evacuate wounded. The campaign was also politically complex, with the British, the United States and the Chinese all having different strategic priorities.
South East Asia Command (SEAC) was the body set up to be in overall charge of Allied operations in the South-East Asian Theatre during World War II. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten served as Supreme Allied Commander of the South East Asia Command from October 1943 through the disbandment of SEAC in 1946.
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June 20, 2020
Soviet Gender Equality Was a Scam – WW2 – On the Homefront 004
World War Two
Published 19 Jun 2020The future looks bright for soviet women in the 1910s, they have the right to vote and they’re on track for social emancipation. Yet this doesn’t last long. Soon, the demands of the nation will rob them of these promises.
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Edited by: Karolina Dołęga
Sound design: Marek KamińskiColorizations by:
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“Disciples of Sun Tzu” – Christian Andersen
“Deviation In Time” – Johannes Bornlof
“Other Sides of Glory” – Fabien Tell
“The Inspector 4” – Johannes Bornlöf
“Sailing for Gold” – Howard Harper-Barnes
“London” – Howard Harper-Barnes
“Split Decision” – Rannar SillarResearch sources:
– Lenin On the Emancipation of Women (1965), pp. 63–4. First Published July 1919, as a pamphlet
– Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai, Allison & Busby, 1977, First Published 1921, as a pamphlet, trans Alix Holt.
– Wendy Goldman, “Recasting the vision: The resurrection of the family”. In Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917–1936, (Cambridge Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Studies, (1993) pp. 296-336), p.310Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com.
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Two books on WW2 – which is the memoir and which the novel?
Lindybeige
Published 4 Mar 2018Two books I have read recently. When is a book a memoir and when is it a novel? WW2 from two different perspectives.
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From the City, From the Plough by Alexander Baron (Bernstein)
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