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9 Consolidated Catalina flying boat

10 The German battleship Bismarck

11 The US long-range Liberator, used for convoy escort

12 Comparative ship sizes

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

       18 German DFS 230 4.1 glider

       19 Heinkel He 111 bomber

       20 German Mauser Gewehr 98

       21 German MG 34 machine-gun

      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

       28 Hawker Hurricane fighter

       29 Messerschmitt Bf 110 long-range fighter

       30 Dornier Do 17 bomber

       31 Junkers Ju 88 bomber

       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

       37 Russian T-34 tank

       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

       41 Japanese infantry cyclist

      MAPS

       1 The pursuit and sinking of the Bismarck

       2 North Atlantic convoy escort zones

       3 The Maginot Line

       4 The invasion of Norway 1940

       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

       21 World Oil Supplies 1939–45

       22 The Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor

       23 Japanese invasion routes, and the sinking of Force Z

      TABLES

1 Allied shipping losses May–December 1941

2 Relative strengths of the Great Powers in

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