The heaviest tank ever built was the German Maus II, which weighed 192 tonnes. However by the end of the war it had never reached an operational state. - source: Guiness Book of Records.
Grandmother, 90, finally reveals her astonishing past as Dutch resistance ... Daily Mail The frail pensioner, who has lived in Scotland since 1948, has finally told how she became a decorated WW2 hero who was part of an elite fighting force in the Dutch Resistance. Mrs Scott dodged bullets, hid crucial supplies from the Nazis and helped ...
A pardon for Irish soldiers Irish Times The Irish Soldiers Pardons Campaign (WW2) has always accepted without equivocation that desertion is a serious offence and those found guilty of the offence of desertion or any military offence must suffer the consequences.