As the Germans rearmed in the 1930s, they equipped some infantry units in their new Panzer ( armored ) divisions with the half-track Sd. Kfz.

The Germans had been using heavier versions of P08 pistols, equipped with larger capacity " snail " drum magazine, and longer barrel ; these were semi-automatic.

The Germans of the Ubii also sent cavalry, which Caesar equipped with Remi horses.

The Germans attacked the poorly equipped French units twice and were driven back.

In 1939, the Germans were mainly equipped with the small Panzer I and Panzer II models which were vulnerable to such weapons.

British bombers were also equipped with cable-cutters although the Germans used few barrage balloons.

The Germans were planning to use the MBT-70 in combination with the Keiler, a tank built on the MBT-70 chassis equipped with a Rheinmetall 120 mm smoothbore gun, therefore some MBT-70 prototypes were tested with the 120 mm gun.

As a result of Allied successes with patrol aircraft against U-boats, the Germans introduced U-flak ( submarines equipped with more anti-aircraft weaponry ) to escort U-boats out of base and encouraged commanders to remain on the surface and fire back at attacking craft rather than trying to escape by diving.

After the Dunkirk evacuation, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill, called for a force to be assembled and equipped to inflict casualties on the Germans and bolster British morale.

After the British Expeditionary Force had been evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940, the then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called for a force to be assembled and equipped to inflict casualties on the Germans and bolster British morale.

They reportedly had artillery ammunition for only 36 hours of operations, and were clearly engaged in a bluff, but it was a bluff the Germans had encouraged, and one that they would have been obliged to support militarily if the much larger, better trained and better equipped Czechoslovak Army chose to fight.

The Germans had a few 88 mm guns but were mostly equipped with the Pak 38, a long-barreled 50 mm gun, with a range of 1, 000 yards.

The loss of a Vickers Wellington equipped with Gee over Germany on August 13 raises fears that the Germans have captured Gee and will counter it, and no further test flights occur over Germany.

Ill equipped and not properly trained to fight on par with the tactics of modern European armies, Cossacks suffered heavy losses and low morale, as their commanders were Russians and Germans who did not value their lives or their specific military abilities.

To encircle and destroy the Polish forces, the Germans engaged most of their own 10th Army, including two armoured, one motorized, and three light divisions, equipped with some 800 tanks altogether.

The Germans were equipped with guns of 30. 5 cm ( Skoda Motor Mörser ; range 9. 6 kilometers ) and 42 caliber cm ( the Big Bertha, range 10 km ), with shells respectively 380 kg and 1000 kg.

In large cities, tanks, armored cars, and jeeps of the Constabulary paraded in the streets in considerable numbers to show the Germans that the Americans meant business, and were properly trained and equipped to meet emergencies.

From 1943 the Germans equipped some Maultier trucks with armored bodies, designated SdKfz 4.

The 1st, 2nd and 5th Nebelwerfer Battalions, each equipped with twenty-four 10 cm Nbw 35 mortars in three batteries, were ready when the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939.

Advantage was with the Germans, who were equipped with snowshoes and skis, and sledge mounted heavy mortars, and light field guns.

In the battle, the Germans inflicted 3, 000 killed and 7, 000 wounded, easily defeating the Dutch with assistance from the Luftwaffe despite the fact that the division was equipped with Czech tanks.

After the British Expeditionary Force had been evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill called for a force to be assembled and equipped to inflict casualties on the Germans and bolster British morale.

Colonel Billy Mitchell also equipped his Spad XVI command airplane with a radio, and the Germans experimented with radios in their Junkers J 1.

A Polish Army officer when the Germans invaded in September 1939, Wyrożemski served with 217 Eskadra Bombowa equipped with PZL. 37 Łoś twin-engine bombers as an observer before he fled the German advance.

Despite these successes, the Germans were pushed back from Moscow and could never again mount a simultaneous offensive along the entire strategic Soviet – German front.

(...) The Germans are quoted to have witnessed U. S. Forces flooring entire villages during Operation Anaconda: ' Let's go, free to pillage ' (...).

When the Germans realised they had been tricked, they burned down an entire section of town, subsequently occupying the city.

During the invasion of the Netherlands, the Germans threw into battle almost their entire Luftlandekorps, an airborne assault army corps that consisted of one parachute division and one division of airlanding troops plus the necessary transport capacity.

During World War II approximately 45, 000 of Częstochowa's Jews, almost the entire Jewish community living there, were killed by the Germans.

He also demanded British withdrawal from Northern Ireland and argued in a 1976 speech in Dublin that it would be best for Britain if London would agree to let the IRA, whom he regarded as freedom-fighters, expel the entire Protestant Unionist population of Northern Ireland in the same manner that the Czechoslovak government had expelled the ethnic Germans of the Sudetenland after the Second World War.

In his 1945 book, The Course of German History, he argued that National Socialism was the inevitable product of the entire history of the Germans going back to the days of the Germanic tribes.

To the contrary, the Anglo-German Naval agreement signed in June 1935, allowed the Germans to build German U-Boat strength to one-third the displacement tonnage of the entire Royal Navy.

The 3. 5 million East Germans, called Republikflüchtlinge, that had left by 1961 totaled approximately 20 % of the entire East German population.

On 28 December 1943, the Soviet government accused the Kalmyks of collaborating with the Germans and deported the entire population, including Kalmyk Red Army soldiers, to various locations in Central Asia and Siberia.

The other nationalities included Ukrainians, Germans, Jews, Belarusians, Koreans and others ; Germans at the time of independence formed about 8 % of the population, the largest concentration of Germans in the entire Soviet Union.

The 3. 5 million East Germans who had left by 1961 totaled approximately 20 % of the entire East German population.

Right up until the Franco-Prussian War, the French had maintained a long-standing desire to establish their entire eastern frontier on the Rhine, and thus they were viewed by most 19th century Germans as an aggressive people.

During this entire period Szpilman lived in fear of capture by the Germans.

The next day 3rd Parachute Brigade's entire front was subjected to fierce artillery bombardment and assaults by German tanks and infantry, with the Germans particularly focusing on the positions held by 9th Parachute Battalion.

On 9 June 1940, the Germans were advancing on a front of more than in length across the entire width of France.

By the end of 1915, the Germans had occupied the entire Russian sector, including Warsaw.

During the height of the German attack on the pass, G Troop from ' A ' Battalion ( No. 7 Commando ), under Lieutenant F. Nicholls carried out a bayonet assault after a force of Germans took up a position on a hill on the Commando's left flank from where they began to enfilade the entire position.

Some time around the 14th of June seven Germans and nine Sherpas, almost the entire team, were at Camp IV below Rakhiot Peak when it was overwhelmed by an avalanche.

These concerns soon materialized as Germans began " pacifying " entire villages in Volhynia in retaliation for real or alleged support for the Soviet partisans.

It would also mean that the Germans would have to transfer troops from the Eastern Front to defend Italy and the entire southern coast of France, thus aiding the Soviets.

Before and during World War II, Joseph Stalin deported to Central Asia and Siberia several entire nationalities for their suspected collaboration with the German invaders: Volga Germans, Crimean Tatars, Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, Kalmyks, and others.