During an early morning air raid on London, on October 25th trams and buses in a busy street were severely damaged by a bomb, and several...
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...
With huge apologies to www.pegasusarchive.org , Also it's long but what could I have left out ? [IMG] Lieutenant Richard Andrew...
Defense against amphibious attack at sea remained a Kriegsmarine responsibility and the navy had both deep-water mines and coastal mines for this...
Though not to be compared in magnitude with the magnificent withdrawal from Dunkirk, this evacuation of British forces from the Dieppe coast was...
War came in earnest for the Allies in May 1940, when Hitler invaded France, striking hardest where least expected. General Maurice Gamelin, the...
The 30th Armoured Brigade commanded by Brigadier Nigel Duncan and was equipped with crab flails. Its three regiments were the 22nd Dragoons, the...
Major General Sir Percy Hobart Percy Hobart joined the Royal Engineers in 1904 and then in 1906 transferred to the engineers in the Indian Army....
Between Asnelles to the West and the estuary of the Orne at Ouistreham to the East, the Normandy coastline is low-lying, particularly suitable for...
Operation Greif Operation Greif was a special false flag operation commanded by the notorious Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny during the...
In late 1943, 3,000 local residents in the area of Slapton had been informed by the British Government that they must evacuate their homes as part...
In September 1940, when bombs struck Buckingham Palace, a policeman observed to the Queen: 'A magnificent piece of bombing, Ma'am, if you'll...
[IMG] The eight deadly Browning machine-guns in the wings of the Vickers-Super-Marine Spitfire fighter are fed from belts holding 250 rounds...
In this picture diagram, it shows the method of operation or the Bren gun; the firing and recoil mechanism is also illustrated in the inset...
First conceived in 1937, the Hawker Typhoon was dreamt up by Sidney Camm as the successor to the Hurricane and the Spitfire. The idea was for a...
Military operations are thick with codenames, acronyms and nicknames that need explaining to the layman. Unfortunately, the written history of...
There is a reason it was called a world war. Besides the major powers involved, numerous lesser countries were caught up in the global struggle...