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The diorama is located close to a permanent exhibition of Soviet military equipment from World War I, including howitzers, tanks, and anti-aircraft weapons. [2] Its collection includes tanks from World War II (T-34-85 and T-70), a surface-to-air missile system (), a field gun and a BM-13 Katyusha rocket launcher based on the ZIS-151 chassis.
This photorealistic diorama of the Battle of Midway was created during World War II on the basis of information then available. Painters of the Romantic era like John Martin and Francis Danby were influenced to create large and highly dramatic pictures by the sensational dioramas and panoramas of their day. In one case, the connection between ...
The National Museum of Military History (Luxembourgish: Nationale Militärgeschichtsmusée, French: Musée national d'histoire militaire, German: Nationales Museum für Militärgeschichte), abbreviated to MNHM, is a national museum in Diekirch, in north-eastern Luxembourg, that includes amongst its exhibits military vehicles and weaponry, a photographic archive, and lifesize dioramas ...
Sheperd Paine. Howard Sheperd " Shep " Paine was a military historian and a collector of militaria best known for the more than three decades he spent as a modeler, sculptor, miniature figure painter, and champion of the diorama. Paine arguably did more than anyone else to forward the unique hobby/art form of military miniatures around the ...
The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) was a reconnaissance and raiding unit of the British Army during the Second World War. Originally called the Long Range Patrol (LRP), the unit was founded in Egypt in June 1940 by Major Ralph Alger Bagnold, acting under the direction of General Archibald Wavell. Bagnold was assisted by Captain Patrick Clayton ...
The 12th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army in World War II. It fought in the European Theater of Operations in France, Germany and Austria, between November 1944 and May 1945. The German Army called the 12th Armored Division the "Suicide Division" [1] for its fierce defensive actions during Operation Nordwind in ...