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Cultivator No. 6 was the code name of a military trench-digging machine developed by the British Royal Navy at the beginning of World War II.The machine was originally known as White Rabbit Number Six; this code name was never officially recognised, but it was said to be derived from Churchill's metaphorical ability to pull ideas out of a hat.
Besides Panzer IIIs and StuG IIIs, the Soviets also used about a hundred ex-German Panzer IV medium tanks as well as Panther tanks. Tiger I and II tanks seized by the Soviets were only largely used for testing rather than fighting on the frontline. Nazi Germany fielded a large quantity of their own captured enemy weapons ranging from rifles to ...
Anti-tank trenches, also called anti-tank ditches, are ditches dug into and around fortified positions to hold up the advance of enemy tanks. [1] [2] Anti-tank ditches were first used in World War I by Germany in an effort to protect their trenches against the newly developed British and French tanks. An anti-tank ditch has to be wide enough ...
The M4 Medium became the second-most-produced tank of World War II, and was the only tank to be used by virtually all Allied forces (thanks to the American lend-lease program); approximately 40,000 M4 Mediums were produced during the war. [30] M4s formed the main tank of American, British, Canadian, French, Polish, and Chinese units.
Digging down, they discover it belongs to a German tank from World War II, complete with mummified crew, lost in the dunes ten years before, out of water, fuel, and supplies. After burying the German crew, they attempt to repair their radio with parts from the tank and manage to tell the outside world that they are alive.
He started digging — and found an unusual World War II artifact. As the farmer in Kostolná-Záriečie dug, a circular concrete structure started to emerge, the Monument Office of the Slovak ...
Nazi Germany developed numerous tank designs used in World War II.In addition to domestic designs, Germany also used various captured and foreign-built tanks. [1]German tanks were an important part of the Wehrmacht and played a fundamental role during the whole war, and especially in the blitzkrieg battle strategy.
The tank could place demolition charges at heights up to 12 feet. The tank was driven against a wall, and the framework was lowered into the ground against the wall. The tank then backed up 100 feet, laying out an electric detonating cable. The explosives were then detonated by the tank driver. It was the successor to the single-charge device ...