The Germans also developed a series of teleprinter encryption systems, quite different from Enigma.

The device was developed for use as part of the Germans ' Kehl radio control transmitter system used in certain German bomber aircraft, used to guide both the rocket-boosted anti-ship missile Henschel Hs 293, and the unpowered pioneering precision-guided munition Fritz-X, against maritime and other targets.

* Revolver cannon were developed in World War II by the Germans as the Mauser MK 213 to provide high-caliber cannon with a reasonable rate of fire and reliability.

In World War I, in the last year of the conflict, the Germans developed the Bergmann MP 18, a small, hand-held automatic weapon with a ' rifle-like ' form ( including a wooden stock ).

Gas-to-liquids ( GTL ) is a developing technology that converts stranded natural gas into synthetic gasoline, diesel, or jet fuel through the Fischer-Tropsch process developed during World War II by Germans.

During the 1930s and all through World War II, British, Japanese, Italians and Germans developed and extensively used oxygen rebreathers in order to fit out the first frogmen.

Germans developed the Dräger rebreathers as of 1912.

In addition, because Patton's rapid drive resulted in a salient that was vulnerable to flanking attacks and getting trapped by the Germans, Weyland and Patton developed the concept of using intensive armed aerial reconnaissance to protect the flanks of this salient.

The course of the second Battle of the Atlantic was a long struggle as the Germans developed anti-convoy tactics and the British developed counter-tactics to thwart the Germans.

Paddy Griffith wrote that the bite and hold system kept moving until November ; the BEF had developed a workable system of offensive tactics against which the Germans ultimately had no answer.

The first practical design of a submarine-based launch platform was developed by the Germans near the end of World War II involving a launch tube which contained a ballistic missile and was towed behind a submarine.

A significant settlement developed in 1710, when 1200 Germans were brought to Livingston Manor, which is now known as Germantown.

The Germans overran the forward Anzac defences and a mêlée developed from which the Anzacs emerged victorious.

The Germans quickly developed plans to launch a pre-emptive operation, following the adage that the best defence is a good offense, intent on capturing the northern section of the Zouave Valley along the northernmost portion of the Canadian front.

An alternative model of the nation-state was developed in reaction to the French republican concept by the Germans and others, who instead of giving the citizenry sovereignty, kept the princes and nobility, but defined nation-statehood in ethnic-linguistic terms, establishing the rarely if ever fulfilled ideal that all people speaking one language should belong to one state only.

The Germans developed a " doctrine of autonomy " the forerunner of both blitzkrieg and modern infantry tactics using groups of Stormtroopers who would advance in small mutually covering groups from cover to cover with " autonomy " to exploit any weakness they discovered in enemy defenses.

Two large ethnic groups soon developed: Germans from both Russia and Germany ( the latter called Reich Germans ) and Hollanders who had come from the eastern United States.

It was feared that British Prisoners of War might be used as hostages by the Germans, and attempts were made to make radio contact with the prisoners to get information about such a situation if it developed.

Gobineau's basic concept, as further refined and developed in Nazism, places the black Aboriginal Australians and " African savages " at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans ( consisting of Germans, Finnish, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Northern Italians, Irish and Dutch ) were at the top ; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans ( consisting of the Spanish, Southern Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i. e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the upper middle ranks ; Slavs ( Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry, the Nazis placed them lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants.

The Germans developed even odder designs, like the Bachem Ba 349 Natter, which launched vertically and thus eliminated the need for an airbase.

In 1918, the Germans developed delayed-action fuzes that would later develop into more sophisticated versions during the 1930s, as Nazi Germany began its secret course of arms development.

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

* August 28 – WWII: The Soviets announce the destruction of the massive Dnieper River dam at Zaporozhye, to prevent its capture by the Germans.

Finally aware of the Prussian advance, the French opened up a massive return fire against the mass of advancing Germans.

At about five o ' clock in the afternoon, after observing the infantry battle from the hilltop, Sobieski led Polish husaria cavalry along with Austrians and Germans into a massive charge down the hillside.

After a massive eight-hour artillery bombardment, the Germans did not expect much resistance as they slowly advanced on Verdun and its forts.

The Rhine frontier having been depleted of forces in order to defend Italy, leaving it defended by “ only the faith of the Germans and the ancient terror of the Roman name ,” as Gibbon put it, a massive number of Vandals, Alans, and Suevi from central Europe crossed the frozen-over and poorly-defended Rhine on 31 December 406.

During World War II, the Germans built massive bunkers along the coast in preparation for launching missiles on England.

The system played a major part in the massive campaign of deception which preceded the D-Day landings, designed to give the Germans a false impression of the location and timings of the landings ( see Operation Fortitude ).

His father's line emigrated to the North American colonies, arriving in New York in 1710, the year of a massive immigration of nearly 2800 Palatine Germans, whose transportation of refugees from London was paid by Queen Anne's government of England.

However, even with such a massive force taking the Germans completely by surprise, the assault was a tactical failure and after 9 days of fighting the Allies managed only to escape back to their own lines, having sustained over 18, 000 casualties.

Harding used new advertising techniques to lead the GOP to a massive landslide, carrying the major cities as many Irish Catholics and Germans, feeling betrayed, deserted the Democrats.

The German Schlieffen Plan was based on defeating France ( and the United Kingdom, should it be involved ) as quickly as possible in the west, which would then permit the Germans to transport their forces eastward to meet the massive Russian Army.

However, massive allied artillery barrages and the flooding of both the Rapido and Garigliane rivers prevented the Germans from reforming.

With the end of the War in sight, the Germans began a massive amount of killings by gas chamber, including Mother Élise, on March 30, 1945, only weeks before the war ended.

The arrest of Agazarian, who knew a great deal about the Prosper network, was a massive coup for the Germans.

During their long retreat following the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation, the Germans no longer managed to transport troops by sea further east due to massive Red Air Force raids.

In his book The War of 19 -- he described a fictional war between Germany and a Franco-Belgian alliance in which the Germans launched massive terror bombing raids on the populace, reducing their cities to ashes before their armies could mobilize.

The French, finally aware of the Prussian advance, opened up a massive return fire against the mass of advancing Germans.

A fund raising organisation, Spirit of ' 41 ( which was named after the year when The Oval was bombed by Germans and the massive effort to rebuild it ) was set up, and to this day has raised over £ 25, 000.

It is useful to contrast the mass migrations and forced expulsion of ethnic Germans out of Eastern Europe with other massive transfers of populations, such as exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey, and population exchanges that occurred after the Partition of India.

One of several massive cycloramas depicting Civil War battles painted during the 1880s, the Battle of Atlanta painting was created by the American Panorama Company in Milwaukee by a team led by Germans Friedrich Wilhelm Heine and August Lohr.

The Germans had undergone a massive effort to reinforce Army Group South, transferred to the control of Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, former commander of Army Group Center during Operation Barbarossa and Operation Typhoon.

The Germans had been preparing a massive counter-attack in the West since the Allied breakout from Normandy.

Later, in 1918, now promoted to major-general, he returned to the front lines and participated in desperate fighting following the Germans ' massive, last-ditch effort to win the war.