Tango01  | 26 Sep 2012 8:48 p.m. PST |
Maybe not very well known, but there were a war betweeen those two countries during WW2.
"On July 5, 1941, the world's gaze was fixed on the ever-widening Second World War.
On that day, Hitler armies, already in the second week of Operation Barbarossa, were driving deeper into the Soviet Union. America, not yet in the war, was drifting ever closer to its fateful and history-changing showdown with Japan. July 5 was also the day that the German submarine U-96 torpedoed and sank the British troop transport Anselm off the Azores killing 254.
Amid all of these calamitous developments, the world scarcely noticed the start another war that was erupting in the then-backwater of South America…" "Peru had spent several years and large sums of money to prepare for war with Ecuador, and had the continent's most modern armed forces when war broke out in August 1941. Italian artillery and bombers, Czech tanks and artillery tractors, American fighter planes and French cannon all made for a war machine capable of overrunning Ecuador's comparatively primitive bayonet army…" See here
link Of possible interest to wargame with miniatures? Amicalement
Armand |
| Lion in the Stars | 26 Sep 2012 9:18 p.m. PST |
Certainly an excuse to throw a whole bunch of stuff on the table that would otherwise NEVER be together! |
| David Manley | 26 Sep 2012 10:15 p.m. PST |
Yup, played this in the past with a friend who specialises in odd South American wars :) |
| Rrobbyrobot | 27 Sep 2012 2:32 a.m. PST |
And now for something completely different.
Yet Equador is still there.
I'd rather play games based on the German invasion of Yugoslavia, or a German operation against a fully mobilized Czech army.
But that's just me.
Still, it is interesting. Thanks Tango. |
The G Dog  | 27 Sep 2012 5:14 a.m. PST |
Commemorated on the Peruvian 10 sol banknote. link (I wondered about this when I was in Peru earlier this year.) Could be a good gaming opportunity. |
| Solzhenitsyn | 27 Sep 2012 6:21 a.m. PST |
Peru was the only side to have tanks? Well, it might only be a light tank, but if you don't have anything to counter that armor it might as well be a Tiger. Same sort of situation in Malaya, late '41 – '42. |
| Caesar | 27 Sep 2012 7:47 a.m. PST |
Wow, that's cool.
I didn't think anyone else knew about this war. |
| Richard Baber | 27 Sep 2012 8:16 a.m. PST |
Done this one too, had an article published in Miniature Wargames magazine in issue 286 (February 2007) :-) Oh and our own SOTCW Journal too. |
| Tango01 | 27 Sep 2012 10:05 a.m. PST |
Happy you had enjoy the link boys! Amicalement
Armand |
| Kaoschallenged | 27 Sep 2012 3:50 p.m. PST |
You might find these interesting too. Robert Lots of photos here, link North American NA-50 in Peruvian service
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| Tango01 | 27 Sep 2012 9:58 p.m. PST |
Quite interesting Robert.
Thanks for share!. Amicalement
Armand |
