More than just builders, Soviet assault sappers were shock troops trained to breach enemy defenses under fire—clearing the ...

Pedro Vera drove an Army ambulance, ferrying the wounded to field hospitals, on D-Day and at the Battle of the Bulge. Somehow ...

History comes to life at Tidioute’s World War II days on Saturday and Sunday as World War II reenactors swarm this small town ...

Hollywood red carpets and Olympic podiums don’t exactly scream “basic training,” but some of the women behind those ...

He reveals that the problems which dogged the Red Army in 1941 and saw its forces routed during the opening months of the war — namely, ... conditions, and tactics on the Eastern Front. Operation ...

Stories Behind the Stars founder says the pace of stories being written has doubled since 2000 but the group still needs more help.

India’s role in helping Red Army withstand the Siege of Stalingrad India has been slowly coming around to recognizing the contribution of Indians to the Allied victory in WWII - which has ...

They later moved to Samarkand during WWII. Gurtovnik volunteered for the Red Army at 18 and joined a tank outfit. He trained in Tajikistan and was sent with the 3rd Tank Army to Ukraine, ...

Faction: The Red Army After the Russian revolution in 1917, the new Soviet government formed a Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. By 1941 the red army was 4.8 million strong with 2.9 million ...

The Soviet Red Army utilized cruder versions during the Winter War, ... But with World War II over, the United States Army decided not to stick with battle sleds.

The Soviet Union’s Red Army used weaponized tularemia against German troops during the World War II Battle of Stalingrad, later revealed by former Soviet scientist Dr. Kenneth Alibek, who was ...

Four communist-era monuments to Red Army soldiers have been dismantled in Poland, to remove symbols of Moscow's post-World War II domination and to stress its condemnation of the war in Ukraine.