Col Prithipal Singh Gill (retd.), the only officer to serve in Indian Air Force, Indian Navy, and Indian Army (Artillery), turns 100. He served during World War-II and the 1965 India-Pakistan War.
The Panjandrum -- A set of wheels packed with rockets and explosives designed by the British Army during World War II. It flew out of control during testing and was never used in battle.
Did the 2001 film "Enemy at the Gates" popularize common misconceptions about the Red Army during World War II, such as the supposedly widespread use of "human wave" tactics and "no step back" orders?
The 2001 film "Enemy at the Gates" was quite popular. It was very good popcorn cinema and arguably remains the most popular movie about the Eastern Front of WW2.
The movie, however, vastly exaggerated the tactical and strategic shortcomings of the Red Army during that time. While "human wave" tactics and "no step back" orders did exist and were used occasionally, their usages, to my knowledge (which comes mostly from this subreddit to be fair), were very localized and not very widespread as depicted in the film. There were also not such widespread supply shortages that one man would be given a rifle with one 5-round clip and the man behind him was given another 5-round clip and told to pick up the other man's rifle should he drop dead.
Nowadays, those incorrect perceptions of the Red Army during WW2 remain very popular. So the question is then: Did "Enemy at the Gates" popularize those misconceptions? If not, then what did?
T-34 is a Soviet medium tank introduced in 1940, famously deployed with the Red Army during World War II against Operation Barbarossa. Its 76.2 mm (3 in) tank gun was more powerful than its contemporaries while its 60 degree sloped armour provided good protection against anti-tank weapons.
The Indian Army during World War II began the war, in 1939, numbering just under 200,000 men.[1] By the end of the war it had become the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945.
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TIL At the outbreak of World War II, the Indian army numbered 205,000 men. Later during World War II the Indian Army became the largest all-volunteer force in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in size!
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Scottish Cameron Highlander and Indian troops march past pyramids in Egypt in 1940, part of the Allied defense preparations against an Italian attack, during World War II.
[November 27th, 1921] Marshal Foch, commander of the Army of France during World War One, met with Sioux Indian leaders during a visit to Bismarck, North Dakota, smoked a peace pipe in a ceremony, and was given the honorary name of "Watapech Wakiga" ("Charging Thunder").
Breakfast K-ration: an individual daily combat food ration which was introduced by the United States Army during World War II. Circa 1942
An Italian Macchi C.202 fighter at Wright-Patterson Field outside Dayton, Ohio, for United States Army Air Forces evaluation. The aircraft had been captured in Italy during the Italian campaign of World War II.
1945, Queen Elizabeth II joined the British Army as a truck mechanic/driver during World War II.
TIL: the largest volunteer army during world war II was the indian army at 2.5 million soldiers, let's not forget them this remembrance day...
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TIL: The Ghost Army was a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The 1100-man unit was given a unique mission within the Allied Army: to impersonate other Allied Army units to deceive the enemy.
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Polish Secret State and its military arm Armia Krajowa (The Home Army), the largest resistance movement in occupied Europe during World War II. Part 2
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Lieutenant General Joseph Stilwell (1883 - 1946, back to camera) of the US Army, commander of US forces in the China Burma India Theater during World War II, congratulates company commanders of his US-trained Chinese troops upon their return from a successful sortie against Japanese outposts in nort
Polish Secret State and its military arm Armia Krajowa (The Home Army), the largest resistance movement in occupied Europe during World War II.
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United States Army First Lieutenant Francis P. Kelly of Chicago, Illinois, eats his ration of food on a snow covered wall in Belgium as his outfit pushes into Germany during World War II.
Colonel Welton M. Modisette, post commander, and 1st Officer Elizabeth A. Wilbern of the 3561st Service Unit, Women’s Army Corps, standing in front of a car at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, during World War II. Col. Modisette conducted the new WAC commander around the camp after her arrival to the camp.
The Ghost Army was a United States Army tactical deception unit during World War II officially known as the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The 1100-man unit was given a unique mission within the Allied Army: to impersonate other Allied Army units to deceive the enemy.
v.redd.it/ykq68y1b1rw71
TIL Bing Crosby was the first performer to regularly use pre-recorded material, rather than do it live. Jack Mullin had acquired a German invention while in the U.S. Army during World War II, the "magnetophon", which used magnetic tape to record audio; and Crosby paid Mullin $50k to commercialize it
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Zygmunt Rumel (22.02.1915-10.07.1944)- Polish poet and, during World War II, officer of the underground in Volhynia. During Volhynian Massacres of Poles he was sent to negotiate an end of the attacks with Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Instead, Ukrainians imprisoned and murdered the envoys. [235x300]
Commanding General Edward P. King (C) speaks with Japanese Imperial army unit Captain Kameichiro Nagano (2nd L) as the U.S. surrendered at Bataan Peninsula during the Pacific War as a part of World War II on April 9, 1942 in Bataan, Philippines.
Being a quartermaster in the U.S. Army during World War II must have been an absolute nightmare
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Malaria drug warning: skulls on a warning sign at a US Army hospital during World War II (1939-1945). It effectively promoted the use of Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug (X-post from r/UnchainedMelancholy)
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I found this in a collection of pins from my grandfather who served in the Army during World War II. European campaign. Any idea the meaning of this pin?
Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind: Indian American writer and lecturer on spirituality who served in the United States Army during World War I and was involved in a Supreme Court case over the right of Indian people to obtain United States citizenship
Malaria drug warning: skulls on a warning sign at a US Army hospital during World War II (1939-1945). It effectively promoted the use of Atabrine, an anti-malaria drug
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Why Russian White Armies during Civil War, and Russian collaborator units during II World War, used Russian naval flag (blue St. Andrew's cross on white background) as their symbol?
One of the symbols commonly used by Russian anti-communist forces, both during Civil War and during 2WW, was Russian naval flag, blue St. Andrew's cross on white background. It was used, for example, as a symbol of general Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army. My question is, why exactly did a naval flag became such a popular symbol for Russian anti-communists, especially considering the fact that sailors seemed to be one of the groups most supportive of Bolsheviks?
General Hastings Lionel "Pug" Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat, remembered primarily for his role as Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War and his service as the first Secretary General of NATO from 1952 to 1957.
A U.S. Army Signal Corps “pigeoneer” holds Camp Crowder’s most celebrated courier pigeon, Kaiser, during the bird’s four-year residency at the training facility at Neosho during World War II.
Lauri Törni / Larry Thorne was a U.S. Special Forces officer during the Vietnam War, who had also been in World War II, as a Commander in the German Army and before that a Finnish Army Jaegar trooper who fought in the Winter War
[1977] Secret Army - During World War II, a Belgian resistance movement called Lifeline, based in Brussels, organises the return of Allied airmen who have been shot down by the Luftwaffe to the United Kingdom. First episode.
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Documentary: The Forgotten Volunteer Army - Indian Army during World War II
2.5 million troops from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal formed the largest volunteer Army in history, the British Indian Army.
Five Parts [Playlist]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TU1dQK-j-4&list=PLFC09D542C311D647
Wikipedia Page of the Day: Indian Army during World War II
The role of Indian army in WW II has largely been neglected by the historians. But by the end of the war it had become the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945. The most significant role played by Indian army during WW II was resisting the aggression of Japan after the British defeat in Malaya
for further reading -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Army_during_World_War_II
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