The Battle of Brody pitted the German 1st Panzer Group against six concentrated Soviet Mechanized Corps drawn from the 5th Army to the North and the 6th Army to the South. It is disputed as to actual losses – India claims to have lost just 29 tanks, while Pakistan has said its military destroyed some 120 Indian tanks – but after Indian forces were repulsed, a United Nations Security Council resolution called for an unconditional ceasefire from both nations, which effectively ended the brief war but not until after the largest tank battle in Asia had already taken place.įought in the opening days of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union from June 23 to June 30, 1941, this has been seen as the greatest armored engagement in history with as many as 5,000 tanks engaged, and it resulted in the destruction of a significant number of the Red Army's operational tank force. Largely inconclusive, it still involved some 50,000 Pakistani troops and around 150 tanks against an Indian force of upwards of 150,000 men and some 260 tanks. One of the largest tank engagements since the Second World War, the Battle of Chawinda was fought between India and Pakistan from September 14 to September 19, 1965. The Germans would go on to lose an entire army at the Battle of Stalingrad, which was also well underway, but it could be argued that the true turning point of World War II was at El Alamein. While the Allies suffered high causalities and lost upwards of half their tanks, more than half the Axis force was killed, wounded, or captured and nearly the entire German/Italian tank forces were destroyed in the battle. Fought from October 23 to November 11, 1942, and with nearly 200,000 Allied troops and more than 1,000 tanks against 116,000 Axis soldiers and more than 500 tanks, it was the largest desert battle in history. Supported by its allies, the British Eighth Army stopped the German advance and turned the tide in North Africa. Films that have a strong military connection are also shown on the network sparsely, such as "An Officer and a Movie" or movies like "We Were Soldiers".If the Battle of Britain was the RAF's "finest hour" then the Second Battle of El Alamein was certainly the British Army's greatest moment of the Second World War. Similar channels such as H2, History and Military History offer shows focused on those.Īmerican Heroes today offers over 50 programs including the popular "Surviving The Cut" which features military members auditioning for special operations units. American Heroes tends to focus on US Military History rather than ancient military history such as Greece, Rome and European history. The majority of programs featured on the channel today are war documentaries or focus on military history such as World War. When a small company in Kentucky abandoned their trademarked name "Military Channel", it was promptly filed by Discovery Wings and in 2005, the network was renamed to the Military Channel. At this time, the only programs offered were focused on aerospace and aircraft.
The Military Channel was originally launched on September 13, 1999, under the name "Discovery Wings". Owned by Discovery Communications, the channel reaches approximately 62 million households in the US today. The Military Channel (now called the American Heroes Channel as of March, 20014), is a channel aimed at history and military history.
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