39th Battalion, heroes of the Kokoda Track campaign to Buna Gona. The battalion ended the campaign with 7 officers and 25 other ranks fit for duty.
HMAS Canberra on fire after the Battle of Savo Island. It was later scuttled. It's believed that it was possibly lost due to an American torpedo.
On 9 August 1942, the Canberra was struck by the opening Japanese shots of the Battle of Savo Island, and was quickly damaged. Unable to propel herself, the cruiser was evacuated and sunk in Iron bottom Sound by two American destroyers. The United States Navy Baltimore class cruiser USS Canberra was named in honor of the Australian ship, and is the only US warship named for a foreign capital city.
The Bf 109. Not ME 109 as so many think. The most mass produced and successful (kills) fighter aircraft in history.
I have already posted it's photos in this thread, but: KV-2 Soviet heavy assault tank. Produced:334 (1940-1943) Weapon:1 × 152-mm tank howitzer mod. 1938/40 years. (M-10T) Armor: Rolled homogeneous armor type Lob body (top), mm / deg. 75 Board body (top), mm / deg. 75 Feed the body (top), mm / deg. 60-75 Bottom, mm 30-40 Roof, mm 30-40 Lob tower, mm / deg. 75 Mask tool, mm / deg. 110 Board tower, mm / deg. 75 Feed tower, mm / deg. 75 Abadoned KV-2 and sIG-33. Captured KV-2. At the beginning of the war firepower and armor of KV and KV-2 were unmatched. The main machine of the Wehrmacht in 1941 - Panzer 3 could punch KV's series armor with only a distance of 100 meters, while the KV and KV-2 punched Panzer 3 from any distance of impact of fire.
Of couse, since the Germans had far superior armour doctrine the superior allied tanks at the beginning of the war didn't matter much.
At the beginning of the war, the Wehrmacht had a strategy to flunk Soviet tanks with it's own tanks. When Tiger and Panter has appeared Panzerwaffe started use the classic tactics using technological superiority. This lasted until the IS-2 has appeared. And after the IS-2 and T-44 and T-34-85 appearance Germany simply stopped using the tanks for its intended purpose, Panzerwaffe used them as mobile pillboxes. That's all.
The Lavochkin La-7 (Russian: Лавочкин Ла-7) was a Soviet fighter developed during World War II. It was a development and refinement of the Lavochkin La-5, and the last in a family of aircraft that had begun with the LaGG-1 in 1938. The aircraft was evaluated between December 1943 and February 1944 and proved to have exceptional performance. It had a top speed of 684 kilometers per hour (425 mph) at a height of 6,150 metres (20,177 ft). It took 5.2 minutes to climb to 5,000 meters (16,404 ft). "The 63rd Guard Fighter Aviation Corps began combat trials of the La-7 in mid-September 1944 in support of the 1st Baltic Front. Thirty aircraft were provided for the trials, which lasted one month. During this time the new fighters made 462 individual sorties and claimed 55 aerial victories while losing four aircraft in combat. Four other La-7s were lost to non-combat causes, mostly related to engine problems. A total of three pilots were killed during the trials to all causes. " Wikipedia (C)
First figures are not correct. Germans had a very soft concept of "demolished tanks" defenition. Even if they lost the entire crew of the tank, and the tank were just steaming iron, the Germans still took it with them to repair base and recorded in the "damaged", then picking a few of these to re-build one functional tank. Second that's why they lost the war. Tank is not only a mean to destroy other tanks, but also a mean of fighting against infantry and fortifications. This became especially evident in 1944 and 1945 when the Wehrmacht did not retreat, but just run to the German borders.
Everyone did the top one if they kept the field. That's one of the reasons why the loss rate was higher when you lost a battle compared to winning the battle, because if you won the battle you got to repair your lost tanks whereas if you lost the battle even a slightly damaged tank was destroyed because you had to leave it behind most of the time.
No, not at all. I have one of the great-grandfathers served as a technician in the tank forces. He said that it was much easier to re-man the crew, if someone were killed/wounded and transplanted it into a new tank, since the Soviet industry produced significantly more tanks than Germany and all its allies, multiplied by 5.
B-2 flying over St. Louis, MO C-130 in lead was taking photos with the ramp down for Airman magazine. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Eepjv7Mtw"]YouTube - B2 Stealth Flying over Downtown St. Louis[/ame] Also from St. Louis. The Boeing Phantom Ray UCAV taxiing for flight test. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeKNhyhROm8"]YouTube - Boeing Phantom Ray UCAV[/ame]
