I think we missed one or rather two movies from the same book... [MEDIA] [MEDIA] [MEDIA]
I'll see your battle for San Pietro and raise you an Op Diadem. San Pietro was at the end of 1943 as the allies ground towards the Winter line....
When I face criticism for offering an explanation for the logic of Op Market Garden from Americans my response is to see their Market Garden and...
I remember reading with great pleasure a three volume series: The Coming Fury, Never Call Retreat and Terrible Swift Sword. Is this a different...
Horrible Histories Adam Ant Spoof... [MEDIA]
Here are some of my favourite modern tributes [MEDIA] You may recognise the tune as the theme from the miniseries "Band of Brothers." It is...
Thanks. In response here are some contemporary works [MEDIA] Ernest Farrar was an officer in the British Grenadier Guards hisHeroic Elegy, Op.36...
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Sorry to appear a party pooper, but just because an old man sets himself a mission to build a memorial doesn't make it a great idea. It is wrong...
Finland's role in WW2 isn't something that is covered much by British media.
Here is a documentary on Formby- this bit has him talking about his war service. It still works for the British serviceman as per the Afghanistan...
Tush and ptshaww. and other derogatory noises... He was a man with a great deal of physical and moral courage. He visited the Normandy...
Weather - engine failure - navigation errors - icing. North Atlantic air ferry route in World War II - Wikipedia
I visited the massacre site and cemetery with a party from Army HQ in 2017. The senior officer a brigadier ex Royal Anglian Regiment told a...
Up to a point. Lots of airmen were lost ferrying aircraft across the Atlantic.
The British equivalent was the Air Transport Auxiliary - "ancient and tattered airmen". Started in 1939. Women joined from 1940. During the war...
No thanks. I'll wait until it has been remaindered... There is something about the title and article that tells me it is sensationalised semi...
Much of the Mail report is nonsense, is very much out of context and misses a key point. It is also idle journalism as the information is on the...
RAF Bomber command had become very skilled ad burning German cities. The main difference between the bombing of Dresden compared to Hamburg...
Bombing cities was prohibited by the Hague convention, but there were big loopholes and all the major powers bombed civilian targets during WW2....
