In fact CPL Punishment, one special camp for hardline Nazis was situated at Cultybraggan in Perthshire Scotland (although you seem to be under the...
I agree with SteveRodgers-the main reason that Franco didn't join the Axis full scale (Don't forget he sent the Spanish Fascist Blue Division to...
Good posts Skipper-Sawic was aso friendly with and flew with Polish-American U.S. Air Force ace Gabby Gabrewski who was a P-47 Thuderbolt ace...
Tadeuz Sawic at 97 the oldest surving Polish Battle of Britain pilot has died in his adopted home of Toronto, Canada. Sawic was born in 1914 in...
Carronade-the programme said that the ships targeted were blockade runners okay. But the picture that emerged was of a botch up between the...
Absolutely correct Leccy!-now I've watched this BBC 2 programme presented by former British Liberal Democratic party leader and and former Special...
Tonight(Tuesday, November 1st) on BBC 2 there is a documentary on BBC 2 on the ''Cockleshell Heroes'' .The Royal Marine Commandoes attack by kayak...
The Bruneval Raid has always interested me persionally as I was born on Friday February 27 1942 roughly at the time that the British raiders...
Go to www.scotsman.com-today's newspaper for October 27 2011 to read a fascinating story-complete with photograph of Steve McQuuen and his...
HI Clint my Montana buddy-your old Scots buddy here.! Yes El Alamein was launched on this day in October. However, I'd like to take issue with...
Carronade-former ''Toomtabard'' here. Charybidis is featured in a virtual reality presentation on the Channel Island of Jersey which is situated...
Hey Carronade-Your old buddy ''Toomtabard'' AKA ''Duns Scotus''/Laser Two here.Nice to know that you are still around. There is a Lancaster in the...
One well meaning movie that provoked rage among British Burma campaign veterans in 1945 was the Errol Flynn movie ''Objeective Burma'' which...
The Nazis sed swing music bands for propaganda purposes bt amended many swing tune lyrics with AntiSemite messages. Iknow this becaue about ten...
GIVEN THE HUGE NUMBER AND INFLUENCE OF SCOTS AND SCOTLAND ON CANADA I DOUBT IF MANY R.C.A.F. MEMBERS of Caledonian ancestry IN WW 2 thought they...
Yes Ihave the Ian Hwakins book on the Munser raid -that's where I obtaned the info about the steps of Munster Cathedral being the Initial Aiming...
Dave, MY MOTHER was born in Ayrshire too.Thanks for your greeting and thanks to all others who responded.
One of the bloddiest raids for the ''Bloody Hundreth'' was the raid on Munster in 1943 where I beleve that the B-17 ''Rosie's Rivetters''...
Firstly, the working class ''Brits'' TAG IS NONSENSE-apart from half a dozen spotty youths -since arrested -fr trying to incite Scots to emulate...
