Your best best is to get in touch with the Wardown Park Museum who house the Regiment's gallery. They may hold the Regimental diaries, and/or have...
It was part of the 55th Infantry Brigade, which in turn was part of 18th Infantry Division. The 55th was mainly held in reserve for most of the...
That picture is a bit of a red-herring. Though the patent for a MG mechanism may have been patented as early as 1870, the actual MG wasn't built...
This site gives the criteria for each level of the War Merit Cross, for both with and without swords. War Merit Cross E.g.
uboat.net - The Men - U-boat Commanders - Korvettenkapitän Günther Prien
The two dogs found with Hitler and Braun in the crater were said to be Blondie and Wulf (both Alsatians). Hitler was also said to have had a dog...
I think it probably implies "old news" or "old hat" etc. I've tried the other one, using a Russian alphabet but it just comes out as gibberish.
babel translates "Старо" as "Old"
Anybody read this? Amazon.com: Operation Lucifer : The Chase Capture and Trial of Adolf Hitler: Books: David B. Charnay
I think we need to differentiate between the breaking of the codes and access to the Enigma machine. If I remember rightly, the codes that the...
I doubt that Portugal would have entered on the Axis side. Portugal had/does have a long history of being Britains friend and had one of the...
And this has to be the strangest conversion ever! The photo is from: Gloster Meteor F.8 For more details: Gloster Meteor F8 Prone Position...
Found some nice shots of Belgian F.4s that enable good comparisons. From: Part 1: EF1 - EF24 - Belgian Military Aircraft
From the nacelle it does not look a III: The Gloster Meteor
From the engine nacelles it looks like the F.4 or higher as the earlier versions were more tapered . This would fit in with the date of 1945/46...
Boy Apprentices were literally boys (15 upwards) who joined the RAF to learn a technical trade. These courses were 3 years, and after graduating...
It's probably the only time I'll ever say this but "well done, traffic wardens". How incompetant a terrorist do you have to be to have your car...
That is a Boy Apprentice Badge (made of brass). However, he is wearing it wrong. The props should normally be pointing to 2, 4, 8 and 10 o'clock.
Copy and paste the url into the "translate a web page" in babel - and change the language to "French to English"...
They had a similar discussion here: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=14464 and here: http://sudwall.superforum.fr/viewtopic.forum?t=164
