Hello all, I know a fair bit about WWII, but I definitely wouldn't call myself an enthusiast. So, I have a great Aunt who served in the military...
Is Alan Turing really this code-breaking god we show him to be? Or are his efforts exaggerated? It has been said he shortened the war by two...
Along with the engineering achievements of the Mulberry Harbours allowing for the disembarkation of men, materials and vehicles in Normandy...
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A flight of Luftwaffe transport planes carrying Lieutenant General Hans Graf von Sponeck and elements of his German 22nd Air Landing Division was...
Known as The Cat, Mathilde Carré was a divorced French army nurse who was recruited into the INTERALLIÉ resistance organization in 1940. She was...
CAMILLA. Code name for the first major deception operation of World War II in the Middle East conducted in January 1941 by Dudley Clarke. The...
There is a black and white picture in the aircrew transit lounge of Gander International Airport of this aircraft on ferry or transiting through...
Born in London on 17 June 1902, Forest Frederick Edward Yeo-Thomas was the son of British parents of Welsh ancestry, and grew up in Dieppe and...
To add pictures into a post that you make here at War44 all you need to do is create an album... On the Navbar click on "Community" then on...
[IMG] The Last Drop In a daring attempt to end the war by Christmas, Winston Churchill and the British High Command hatch an extraordinary...
Roger Landes Recruited: March 1942 Roles: Circuit Organiser, Wireless Operator (F Section) Circuits: SCIENTIST, ACTOR Codenames: Stanislas,...
Nicknamed the 'Houseowner' by his comrades, Sergeant Jacob Pavlov, Hero of the Soviet Union and pre-war accountant, held a battered four-storey...
The Enigma was a highly sophisticated mechanical encryption device that had a keyboard and looked superficially like a typewriter. The German...
To enable the forces already on the Normandy coast on D-Day to be reinforced and kept supplied with utmost speed it was necessary that two...
"Except possibly for a few last shots, the Battle of London is over," declared Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P. Chairman of the War Cabinet Committee on...
Thomas Currie Derrick, (1914-1945), vineyard worker and soldier, was born on 20 March 1914 in the Salvation Army hospital at Medindie, Adelaide,...
Valentine Scorpion III, 22nd Dragoons, 79th Armoured Division, Suffolk, January 1944 Events moved so fast once the mine-clearing flail tank was...
During my first few weeks in the army we were given various aptitude tests and it was discovered that I had an affinity for reading Morse code for...
Thursday 16th August 1945 My (22nd.)birthday was celebrated in the Squadron canteen. Aided by Vic, Hewie,Wyatt, 29 tins of beer and 6 bottles of...