10 The German battleship Bismarck
11 The US long-range Liberator, used for convoy escort
13 British Lee-Enfield rifle Mk 111
14 Mercedes and Auto-Union racing cars
15 British Bren light machine-gun
16 British, French and German tanks in use at the start of the war
17 Junkers Ju 52/3m transport aircraft
22 Fairey Swordfish from HMS Illustrious
23 German 8.8mm anti-aircraft/anti-tank gun
24 Heinkel He 280 – the world’s first jet fighter, for which neither Milch nor Udet saw any need
25 British Avro Lancaster bomber
26 Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber
27 Supermarine Spitfire and Messerschmitt Bf 109
29 Messerschmitt Bf 110 long-range fighter
32 The rocket-powered Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet – the fastest aircraft used in the war
33 Germany’s jet-propelled Me 262 – the only jet aircraft to have a significant role in the war
34 Arado 234 ‘Blitz’ bomber (jet)
35 Heinkel 162 ‘Volksjäger’ (jet)
36 Russian Ilyushin 2 Shturmovik
38 Russian machine-pistol PPSh 41
39 Two of the best aircraft of the war the Mitsubishi ‘Claude’ and ‘Zero’ fighters
40 The Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga
MAPS
1 The pursuit and sinking of the Bismarck
2 North Atlantic convoy escort zones
5 The Westward German armoured offensive
6 German Blitzkrieg and the evacuation of Dunkirk
7 Italy enters the war, June 1940
8 Advance of the Allied XIII Corps along the North African coast, January/February 1941
9 The Mediterranean Theatre 1939–40
10 Battle of Britain – the air battlefield
11 Russian/Japanese battles of 1938–40
12 The expansion of the USSR, 1939–40
13 The ‘buffer states’ between Germany and Russia eliminated by invasions and treaties
14 Russian rail communications
15 Barbarossa: the German Army on the eve of the invasion of the USSR
16 Barbarossa: the first impact
17 German advance towards Moscow, June to December 1941
18 The economic resources of the USSR
19 The German assault on Moscow
20 Petroleum supplies to Britain and Germany 1939
22 The Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor
23 Japanese invasion routes, and the sinking of Force Z
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