Glossary Guides: Germany Guides: Russia Guides: US Submit Mods & Maps Units   Reference Links America in WWII DoD 101 Grunt's Military Tanks in WWII US WWII Memorial World War Two Ships   Term Definition Allies Formal alliances during the war Original allies French Third Republic Republic of Poland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ... Read More... armor Armor is a heavily armured military force or organization, such as heavy infantry or heavy cavalry (as opposed to light infantry or cavalry). In modern armored warfare, armored units equipped wi... Read More... artillery Historically, artillery refers to any engine used for the discharge of projectiles during war. The term also describes ground-based troops with the primary function of manning such weapons. ... Read More... Bataan The Battle of Bataan represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines, in the early stages of the Pacific War. Invasion As Japanese carrier planes de... Read More... Blitzkrieg Blitzkrieg - literally "lightning war" - is a popular name for an operational-level military doctrine which employed mobile forces attacking with speed and surprise to prevent an enemy from implementin... Read More... bridgehead A bridgehead is literally a military fortification that protects the end of a bridge that is closest to the enemy. The term has been generalized to mean any kind of defended area that is extended into ... Read More... carpet bomb The phrases area bombing and carpet bombing refer to the use of very large numbers of unguided gravity bombs, often with high proportion of incendiary bombs, to attempt the complete destruction of a ta... Read More... garrison In the military, garrison is the collective term for the body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it, but now often simply using it as a home base. The station is u... Read More... Guadalcanal The Battle of Guadalcanal was one of the most important battles of World War II. The assault on the Japanese-occupied island of Guadalcanal by the Allied navies and 16,000 United States troops on 7 Aug... Read More... Guderian Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (17 June 1888 - 14 May 1954) was a military theorist and innovative General of the German Army during the Second World War. Germany's panzer forces would be raised and fig... Read More... Hauptmann German term for Captain. In armies and marines, Captain is the rank (equivalent of Nato ran... Read More... infantry Infantry are soldiers who fight primarily on foot, mainly with small arms and operate within organized military units. "Infantry" also refers to the branch of the military in which these soldier... Read More... Luftwaffe The Luftwaffe ("air force") is the commonly used term for the German air force. The history of the Luftwaffe began in 1910 with the founding of the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte... Read More... MacArthur Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 — 5 April 1964) was an American military leader credited with defeating the Japanese in World War II. He helped rebuild Japan after the war and played a key ro... Read More... Manila After American combat units were ordered withdrawn from the city on December 31, 1941, Manila was declared an open city by President Manuel L. Quezon and was occupied by Japanese forces on January 2, 1... Read More... Marne River and location of two decisive battles during World War 1. The First Battle of the Marne was a World War I battle fought from September 5 to 10, 1914. It was a Franco-... Read More... mortar A mortar is a smoothbore, muzzle-loading artillery piece that fires indirect shells (bombs in the UK) at low velocities, short ranges, and high-arcing ballistic trajectories. These attributes contrast ... Read More... Panzer A Panzer is a tank, usually a Second World War German model. Panzer also describes armoured forces, as in "panzer division". Panzer is loan word from German. The German noun means <... Read More... Philippines The Battle of the Philippines was the invasion of the Philippines by Japan in 1941-42, and the defense of the islands by Filipino and United States forces. Although the result was a Japanese victory, t... Read More... Rommel Major General Erwin Rommel (November 15, 1891 - October 14, 1944) was one of the most distinguished German Field Marshals and commander of the Deutsches Afrika Korps in World War II. He is also ... Read More... tank A tank is a tracked, armoured combat vehicle (armoured fighting vehicle), designed primarily to engage enemy forces by the use direct fire. A modern main battle tank (MBT) is distinguished by it... Read More... The Soldier's Medal The Soldier's Medal is a military award of the United States Army. It was introduced by a law pa... Read More... Tobruk The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers who held Tobruk, Libya against the Afrika Corps, during a period known as the Siege of Tobruk in World War II. The conflict started on 10 Ap... Read More... War Plan Orange War Plan Orange was the US Navy war plan for dealing with Japan in World War II. The general idea was that it would take a while to get going, and during that time the US would mobilize the Pacific Fle... Read More... wedge formation A wedge formation, also known as a flying wedge is a charging technique in which troops are arrayed to form a wedge or V shape. If the point of the wedge can breach the enemy line, the fo... Read More... Wehrmacht Wehrmacht was the name of the armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It replaced the old Reichswehr and was succeeded by the current Bundeswehr. The Wehrmacht of World War II was comprised of the a... Read More...

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