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Elefant (German for "elephant") was a heavy tank destroyer (self propelled anti-tank gun) used by German Panzerjäger (anti-tank units) during World War II. Ninety-one units were built in 1943 under the name Ferdinand (after its designer Ferdinand Porsche) using VK 45.01 (P) tank hulls which had been produced for the Tiger I tank before the competing Henschel design had been selected.
James Howard Williams, also known as Elephant Bill (15 November 1897 – 30 July 1958), was a British soldier and elephant expert in Burma, known for his work with the Fourteenth Army during the Burma Campaign of World War II, and for his 1950 book Elephant Bill.
World War II Burma Campaign Lin Wang ( Chinese : 林旺 ; pinyin : Lín Wàng ; Zhuyin Fuhao : ㄌ一ㄣˊ ㄨㄤˋ ; 1917 – 26 February 2003) was an Asian elephant that served with the Chinese Expeditionary Force during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and later relocated to Taiwan with the Kuomintang forces.
Denise Weston Austin (1925–1997), colloquially known as the Elephant Angel, was a Northern Irish zookeeper known for keeping Sheila, an elephant calf from the Belfast Zoo, in her backyard during World War II. She was also known for being the first female zookeeper to work at the Belfast Zoo.
The Battle for the Kapelsche Veer, also known as Operation Elephant took place between 26–31 January 1945. It was fought between the German Wehrmacht and allied troops at the Kapelsche Veer – a ferry crossing of the River Meuse near the village of Capelle in the province North Brabant of the Netherlands .
The elephant battery in Peshawar During World War I, elephants pulled heavy equipment. This one worked in a munitions yard in Sheffield. An elephant pulling a Supermarine Walrus aircraft, India, June 1944. With the advent of gunpowder warfare in the late 15th century, the balance of advantage for war elephants on the battlefield began to change.
The 758th Tank Battalion was a tank battalion of the United States Army that served during World War II, later becoming the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment.. The 758th, the first armored unit whose members were African American soldiers, was formed in 1941 and served in Italy.
Faithful Elephants (かわいそうなぞう, Kawaisō na Zō, lit."Poor Elephants"), is a story written by Yukio Tsuchiya and originally published in Japan in 1951. [1] It was published and marketed as a true story of the elephants in Tokyo's Ueno Zoo during World War II [2] but contained fiction.