Indholdsfortegnelse for October 2023 i Military Trader

New film to tell story of Nazi resistance hero Pileckin A big-screen film is in the works that will tell the story of polish Nazi resistance leader Witold Pileckin. Pileckin, who was among the 2,000 Poles rounded up in Warsaw and sent to Auschwitz, became known by the name Tomasz Serafiński. Pileckin was voluntarily captured and soon established an underground military cell in Auschwitz. He broke out of the camp more than 2 1/2 years later. He would write a report about the mass murder executed by the Nazi regime there and lobbied for the Allies to attack concentration camps and free prisoners. The film will be a combined effort between U.S.-based Powder Hound Pictures and the Polish Film Institute. It will be produced by Jayne-Ann Tenggren, whose resume includes…

Joe Foss is one of those towering figures that’s remembered for doing big things in a lot of different worlds. Many will remember him as the governor of South Dakota. Many others will recall him as the first commissioner of the old American Football League and as a television broadcaster. Still others are familiar with him through his tenure as president of the National Rifle Association. Military buffs and collectors no doubt put Foss’s military career at the top of his list of achievements. Indeed, even if Foss didn’t rise to prominence in any of those other areas, he would still be saluted as a giant among men for his accomplishments as a Marine Corps fighter pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Foss was born on April…

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This past summer marked the 13th anniversary of the release of the video game World of Tanks (WoT), an armored warfare-themed multiplayer online game focused on player vs. player action involving tanks from the 20th century. While this isn’t a particularly noteworthy anniversary, the role that WoT — and similar games — has on popular culture can’t be overstated. Originally released for the PC by Wargaming, an independent studio that was originally headquartered in Belarus, the game is now available for the PlayStation and Xbox platforms – while its success spawned the sequels World of Warplanes and World of Warships. No one would suggest that these games are especially realistic, yet, they’ve attracted huge followings and spurred interest in all things military tanks, planes and ships accordingly. While WoT may…

When Adolf Hitler and the “Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei” (NSDAP – Nazi Party) came to power in 1933, absolute power and control were manifested in their agendas for the German people, and all those who would live under the Fuhrer’s ruthless dictatorship. With Hitler’s ideals of a master race, any person whom the Nazis felt was either an “Untermensch” (sub-human), non-productive or an untrustworthy individual was to be used as a slave laborer for the state’s benefit, or simply put to death. Small local jails and holding areas quickly sprang up across the country to hold the thousands of political opponents, Slavs, Jews, Gypsies, criminals, homosexuals, clergy and others rounded up by the Nazi “Sturmabteilung” (SA storm troopers), “Schutzstaffel” (SS-Hitlers black knights), German civil and secret police. As the number of…

The naval base of Portsmouth on the south coast of England has been vital to the defense of the country for centuries and has been used as a center of operations by the Royal Navy during that time, but especially so during both world wars. In the build-up for D-Day, Operation Overlord, the harbor and surrounding area was one of the major assembly points. Extending out from the base, some of the small, remote villages were used as staging areas for troops arriving and preparing for embarkation. One of these villages was Denmead, where senior officers such as Eisenhower and Montgomery had their tactical headquarters. Another important location vital in the planning and conduct of the operation was established in the grounds surrounding Southwick House on the outskirts of the…

As Europe became swept up in war, it was apparent to the British military that English tank production facilities were no match for the burgeoning demand for both infantry tanks and cruiser tanks, or in US terminology, cavalry tanks. Not surprisingly, the resources of Canada were turned to in order supplement tank production in the British Isles. In August 1940 the Canadian army rostered only fourteen tanks, Vickers Mk VIB light tanks, and the Canadian tank industry was largely non-existent. Two months prior, the British Ministry of Supply had ordered 300 Valentine MIII Infantry Tanks from the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Angus shops, and the Canadian army had added a further 188 to that order. This move still did not address the need for cavalry, or cruiser, tanks, and the Valentine…

I am a retired Army Master Sargent and built (total frame-off restoration) both of these vehicles, a 1943 Willys MB Jeep and 1943 Dodge WC-51 Weapons Carrier as a tribute to our WWII veterans. I am involved with our local American Legion Post and their Honor Guard. The Dodge WC-51 Weapons Carrier was a 100 percent frame-off that my wife and I disassembled, had sandblasted, drive train rebuilt by a local friend who was a motor pool sergeant in Korea in the late 1960s and had it painted and and then my wife and I reassembled it. Everything original we saved right down to the distributor and Zenith carb. The bed was a total loss, so we had a friend build a new one. A couple of years after building…