First Estonian armored car was built in December 1918 in Tallinn Harbor factory under engineer Saukas and Johan Pitka (later rear admiral and commander of Estonian Navy).It was named Estonia. It was built on the Federal 3 ton lorry. Second armored car named Tasuja was build soon after. Unfortunate...
Didn't know this had gone on. Memorial to the Tankers who fought around Poelkapelle has recently been inaugurated. From what I can gather, a fairground truck has already backed into it or something similar and damaged it. http://www.tankmemorial.vpweb.co.uk/default.html http://www.tankme...
I just bought a new and fantastic book about the Breda firm. The books mentions artillery production at Breda during the Great War (1915-1918) as 687 210 mm mortars and 480 14,9 cm howitzers. The last one of course was the Krupp 15 cm Haubitze. Kosar mentions this weapon as produced by Vickers in Italy,...
Going through the info on the Mk's 1 - 3 this morning looking for inspiration for my next model. On the info page for the Mk 1 there is a link which takes you to a film of a Mk 3 female performing for the camera. The sponsons are definately right for the later marks but the exhaust, when you can see it through th...
Two photos here.? Can anyone tell me where the colour photo was taken?? Incidentally, this is a wartime photo and?not a modern one - note the Wehrmacht soldiers.? All I can say is that there were a pair of tanks?in Kharkov, Leningrad, Kiev, Archangel, Rostov-on-Don, Smolensk and Voroshilovgrad, bu...
Can anyone tell me anything about this weapon which was apparantly supplied to the Turkish Army...... "Maxim light machine guns (M1908) had a caliber of 7.92 mm and they weighed 14.6 kg. They had an automatic rotating bolt fed by a 50-round drum." Cheers
Does anyone know where good, close-up pics of Great War barbed wire can be found, to illustrate the difference between that and what we see in the countryside today? It's for educational purposes. I thank you.
Hi all. I am currently looking for information concerning bulgarian infantry. I would especially like any information relating to uniforms, infantry weapons (machine guns, rifles and pistols), trench mortars, helmets and caps. Any photo or drawing is welcome. Regards from Spain
Citizens, I think this is new. While looking into the matter of equipment, I noticed quite a bit of stuff about grenades that I hadn't before; in particular, the presence of stick grenades in the British and French armies that pre-dated the German Steilgranate. I've come across several pictures of F...
Greetings, Attached is a copy of a real photo?postcard labeled "A nest of baby?tanks". Interesting group showing some camouflaged examples. There is writing on the back of the turret of a tank in the foreground, but I haven't been able to make it out. John
Greetings, Attached is a photo and details of a group of FT-17s, some of which show unit markings.? The format of the photo is a 'Carte Postale', so am assuming it was taken in France. John
Hello A lot of tank wreck pics are now on delcampe.net. All Mk IV's,? i.E. "B38" camouflaged with black strips. Delcampe.net > postcards > tank (You have to scroll down!) Cheers, Peter T
Here's a picture I came across, reportedly from the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917. According to the order of Battle, eight Mark 2 tanks took part in Vimy, at the outset of the Battle of Arras. This was apparently one of them. The picture is from the Canadian Veterans Affairs. The tanks were largely i...
??? I purchased a couple of these and was surprised that the tracks are molded in a much better material than the previous releases.?The tracks are?more flexible and takes glue much better than the previous releases. I was able to use these new Tracks?with no problems whatsoever. ??? Now I'd just lik...
Retrokit France seem to have added several new WWI figures: Hotchkiss 1901 MG with French crew; Maxim 1908 MG with Early German crew; Vickers MG with Early/Late British crew; WWI Browning MG with US crew; Belgian Maxim MG & LMG with crew firing; French A/C or Autocanon crew; French soldiers - ear...
A new Swedish Tank Museum is being created from the merger of three existing sites, Axvall included. Details here: http://www.arsenalen.se/en/default.aspx The Stridsvagn m/21 appears to be safe.
Hi I'm a Brit living in Italy. My great uncle Harold George Macklon served as a Private in WW1, and afterwards wrote a memoir of his experiences in the war. I hope to get Harolds story published and as such have spent the last couple of years reasearching WW1. I haven't spent much of this time on tanks and w...
Bonjour, Some informations found in Vincennes (SHD - box 16 N 2130) about the 12 British Renault FT given by the French Army in 1918. Before June 1919? the Tank Corps?had a mind?to send back these tanks to the? French Army.? With the Bovington's Renault FT, the British Army received 13 French "Ch...
Regrettably I'm too busy to dedicate as much time to researching these things as I would like. Hoping someone could provide a location, or better still, the engagement that saw the demise of these three tanks. Hulks of Eileen II and Eve (note distinctive artwork on the glacis plate of Eve), with an uni...
