Known as the Kriegsmarine during WWII .. The Germans established more than twenty large coastal batteries between Cherbourg and Le Havre and...
Hey chaps have you seen this book ? Omaha Beach - A Flawed Victory, by Adrian R. Lewis. [IMG] Interesting question which you might not...
THE RAF’s most decorated wartime gunner has died at 87, it was announced yesterday. Flying Officer Wallace McIntosh flew 55 deadly missions as...
The American Airborne Landings and St Mere Eglise The Allies The overall mission of the two US airborne divisions on the morning of...
The German Naval battery at St Marcouf (also known as Crisbecq) was placed to cover the potential landing beaches along the eastern coast of the...
IT was the longest and hardest won campaign of the Second World War. Now, more than 60 years after the end of bloody Battle of the Atlantic, the...
Interesting article by the historian Norman Davies in an old Sunday Times aticle i found while surfing... :thumb: How we didn't win the war ....
The invasion of France on June 6, 1944 was a triumph of intelligence, coordination, secrecy, and planning. The bold attack was also a tremendous...
The D-Day invasion began with a dangerous attack by American paratroopers. Dropped behind enemy lines to soften up the German troops and to secure...
D-DAY, the date for a planned action. Generally used in a military context, the term enables planners to establish sequential priorities for...
Charlotte Gray's daughter launches operation to save SAS clubThe daughter of wartime secret agent 'Charlotte Gray' is fighting a battle of her own...
Imagine waking up to the sight of the Allies coming into view with the mass of ships heading your way? I have often thought what went thru the...
At the time of the landings, there were 60 German divisions in the West waiting for the Allies to strike. It sounds like an impressively large...
The two armies that faced each other across the beaches in the early hours of 6 June 1944 were vastly different in almost every way. One was very...
General Dwight Eisenhower was chosen as Supreme Commander for Overlord because of his success with other landings in other theatres. He had...
General Leutnant Wilhelm Richter, commander of the German 716th Infantry Division, received news of the Allied airborne landings at around...
With huge apologies to www.pegasusarchive.org , Also it's long but what could I have left out ? [IMG] Lieutenant Richard Andrew...
As darkness was falling at 2256hrs on 5 June 1944, six Horsa gliders were pulled airborne from the runway at Tarrant Rushton airfield in England...
Defense against amphibious attack at sea remained a Kriegsmarine responsibility and the navy had both deep-water mines and coastal mines for this...