WW2 Battles
What was the battle where thousands of British and other Allied troops escaped from a port in France, 1940?
Battle of Dunkirk
It was the most efficient Soviet tank of the war, considered by many experts as the best tank ever made.
T-34
Name of the German army that was sent to North Africa.
Afrika Korps
It was the commander and chief of the SS.
Heinrich Himmler
Name of the fortifications that the Germans built to stop an allied invasion on Western Europe.
Atlantic Wall
Soviet forces stoped the German advancement further east with help of harsh winter during the last months of 1941.
Battle of Moscow
It was a deadly dive bomber used by the Germans in all fronts, easily recognisable by its inverted gull wings and loud siren sound.
Stuka or Sturzkampfflugzeug.
It was a famous Waffen-SS unit that is widely known for retaking the city of Kharkov (Ukraine) in 1943, against all odds.
Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (Erste SS-Panzerdivision Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler)
It was a famous British General, knwown for his victories at El Alamein in North Africa.
Bernard Mongomery (Monty)
It is considered one of the worst armies of the war.
Italian army
It was considered the turning point of WW2 where Soviets and Germans fought a decisive battle in a siege that lasted more than five months between the years of 1942 and 1943.
Battle of Stalingrad
It was the most feared German heavy tank, with a 88mm canon and thick frontal armor.
Tiger tank
It was one of the best units in the war, defeating the Allies in the battle of France, unitl it met its end at Stalingrad.
German Sixth Army
He was a famous Soviet general who beat the Germans at Moscow and Stalingrad.
Gheorgy Zhukov
Name of the largest battle tank in history that took place in mordern day Ukraine, 1943.
Battle of Kursk
It was one of the largest amphibian invasions of all-time whose objetive was to secure beach heads all over Normandy (France) to ensure the landing of more troops that could avance through Western Europe all the way into Germany.
Operation Overlord or D-Day
It was the standard American rifle in the WW2. It was a semi-automatic rifle with 8 rounds per magazine with an easily recognisable "ping" sound when the magazine emptied.
M1 Garand
Name of the American divisions that stormed the beach of Omaha during operation Overlord.
29th Infantry division, Rangers, first infantry division (big red one)
He was the supreme commander of all allied forces in the western front.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He is most decorated German ace pilot of the war, with more than 519 tanks destroyed, one battleship, one cruiser, 70 landing craft, and 150 artillery emplacements. He flew on his Stuka dive bomber.
Hans Ulrich Rudel
It was one of the largest airborne operations of all-time whose objetive was to secure some bridges in occupied Holland (Netherlands) that could allow tanks go across the Rhine river into Northern Germany. The operation turned out to be failure because the British failed at taking the bridge near the city of Arhem.
Operation Market Garden.
It was a very efficient machine gun with a high rate of fire of 1200 rounds per minute. It was used by the German in all fronts.
Mg-42 (Maschinengewehr 1942)
It was one of many Waffen-SS divisions constituted by non-German combatants. This one, in particular, was made mainly by Scandinavinas:Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes.
Waffen-SS Wiking (5.SS-Panzerdivision Wiking)
He was one of the best German generals of the war, considered one of the pioneers of the "Blitzkrieg" and the "Panzerdivision" concept. He was dismissed by Hitler after he failed to take Moscow and after he was involved in Hitler's assassination attempt on July the 20th, 1944.
Heinz Guderian
Name that the Germans gave to the captured Soviet female combatant that they found during Operation Barbarossa
Flintenweiber (gunwomen)