As hostilities drew to a conclusion in Europe, the United States pushed hard towards victory in the pacific, After the heavy losses of Pearl Harbor the industrial manufacturing power of the United States was able to make significant technological and tactical advances that, by 1945, made it practically imposible for Japan to win. Only the desperate measures of Suicide raids on ships had any impact, ...
The new sovereign state of Czechoslovakia was formed in 1918 at the end of the 1st World War, and came under almost immediate threat of invasion necessitating the creation of a new army. By 1938 that army had grown to number 1.5 million men, and was well equipped with modern weapons, including locally made tanks. In the early 1930s watches produced by the swiss company Lemania were supplied ...
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