I think Japan still would have invaded the Soviet Union though, if the Second Sino-Japanese War continued (the oil embargo only really happened once they invaded Indochina).
Other than that I agree with you. That would be curious alternate reality.
@CWO-Marc How funny: I thought it was really sad!
@Wittmann said in On this day during W.W. 2:
@CWO-Marc How funny: I thought it was really sad!
I guess the perspective depends on which side of a Stuka attack a person is on: delivery or receipt. :)
@CWO-Marc said in On this day during W.W. 2:
@Wittmann said in On this day during W.W. 2:
@CWO-Marc How funny: I thought it was really sad!
I guess the perspective depends on which side of a Stuka attack a person is on: delivery or receipt. :)
Heh Heh Yea cool pic.
Must’ve been destroyed on ground ? Certainly not an air crash. Kinda hard to tell, looks like burn marks by the engine ? Possible training accident ?
What do you guys think ?
Or I guess it coulda been shot down and when he tried to land, it ended that way ?
@barnee it could have been hit while trying to take off also…
January 18, 1944. Monte Cassino
In Italy the assault on the Cassino lines continues. The days following the 17th January saw some of the deadliest fighting of the campaign as first the French, then the British – a term which encompasses the Canadians, the Indians and the New Zealanders – and then the Americans, tried to break through.
Photo: British 5.5 inch medium artillery in action during the night barrage which opened the assault on the Garigliano River by the British 10th Corp
Source: WWII Today
On this day in 1942, Malaya, a 2-pounder anti-tank gun from Australian 2/4 Anti-Tank Regiment destroyed 9 Japanese tanks.
Source: RG Poulussen
@captain-walker said in On this day during W.W. 2:
On this day in 1942, Malaya, a 2-pounder anti-tank gun from Australian 2/4 Anti-Tank Regiment destroyed 9 Japanese tanks.
That same 2-pounder anti-tank gun would not do much against the tanks running around on the Eastern Front…
-Midnight_Reaper
@Midnight_Reaper That is a mad statistic. Thanks for the post.
@Midnight_Reaper yeah…no kidding. The armor plate on that anti tank gun is probably thicker than those Japanese tanks.
@captain-walker yea there hand grenades weren’t very good either : )
@barnee another pic of that engagement…
January 20, 1942. Eastern Front
180 miles west of Moscow, Soviet 11th Cavalry Corps pushes south from Rzhev towards Vyazma, attempting to isolate German 9th Army at Rzhev. 50 miles further west, Soviet 4th Shock Army finally reaches the German supply dumps at Toropets after several days without food. They attack and capture 6 tanks, 723 trucks, artillery with 450,000 shells, small arms with millions of rounds of ammunition, 1000 drums of fuel and much food.
Source: worldwar2daybyday
January 21, 1941. North Africa. Operation Compass
Assault on Tobruk, Libya, opens at 05:40hrs with an artillery barrage. Australian 6th Division sappers blast through the perimeter wire with Bangalore torpedoes and fill in antitank ditches, allowing 18 Matilda tanks and some captured Italian M11 and M13 medium tanks to move through. As at Bardia, Allied infantry and tanks pick off Italian machinegun posts, artillery batteries and dug-in tanks from within the defensive perimeter. They reach within 2 miles of the town of Tobruk and shell Italian cruiser San Giorgio from cliffs overlooking the harbour. 3 squadrons of RAF Blenheims bomb the defences continually. 8000 Italians are captured including the commander at Tobruk, General Petassi Manella, who refuses to surrender the garrison. Overnight, Italian bombers attack but only succeed in hitting a POW compound and killing 50-300 Italian prisoners.
Photo: The 37th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment has time for a spot of tea as it bombards Tobruk, 21 January 1941.
Source: worldwar2daybyday
It looks like a nose over landing caused by landing on rough ground…if the wheels can’t overcome an obstacle because forward momentum is running out then the entire plane rotates (just as locking the front brakes on a bicycle causes an over the handlebars crash)
The fire damage looks as if it burned upwards from the engine in place to me but I’m not a pilot so I’m just speculating. Assuming that the photo is of one of the planes in that raid, obv. thousands of stukas met their end during the war.
22 January 1944
Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, U.S. Army, Commanding General of Fifth Army, looks toward the shoreline from a Higgins PT boat carrying him to the beachhead near Anzio, Italy.
The Battle of Anzio was a battle of the Italian Campaign of World War II that took place from January 22, 1944 (beginning with the Allied amphibious landing known as Operation Shingle) to June 5, 1944 (ending with the capture of Rome).
Lieutenant General Mark Wayne Clark (May 1, 1896 – April 17, 1984)
(Photo source US Army Signals Corps #185793)
On this day in 1944, Allied troops landed at the Italian town of Anzio in an attempt to outflank the defences of the Gustav Line.
January 24, 1941. North Africa. Operation Compass
80 miles west of Tobruk, British tanks attack the Italian fort at Mechili in the Libyan desert. However, the British expect a speedy capitulation and are surprised by the vigorous defence put up by Italian tanks of the Babini Armour Group. Losses are about equal on both sides and the British withdraw.
Photo: Italian tanks with Fort Mechili in the background.
Source: worldwar2daybyday
January 24, 1945
M4 Sherman medium tanks of the 40th Tank Battalion, Combat Command R, 7th Armored Division, take up defensive positions in a field near St. Vith after retaking the village from the Germans.
(Photographed, Wednesday, January 24, 1945)
The 7th Armored, in a less famous but equally heroic stand than Bastogne, was cut off from reinforcements (except for scratch units of the 106th Infantry Division, 9th Armored Division and 28th Infantry Division) in St. Vith on December 17, 1944.
Faced with intermittent radio contact and a lack of supplies and reinforcements, the 7th Armored denied St. Vith from the Germans for five vital days. After regrouping and re-equipping in early January 1945, Combat Command B of the 7th Armored retook St. Vith on January 23.
(Caption from - worldwar2database.com)
(Photo source - United States Army Archive)
@captain-walker looks as if they probably had some air support that day, although fighting in the village, maybe not ?
Probably did elsewhere in the battle that would have helped them indirectly I would think.
Cool photo.