Just been reading Beaches Fields, Streets and Hills and the author mentions two locations of anti-invasion defences in England where explosives...
Enigma machine for sale Anyone got any spare change to help bid? :D
Some fascinating finds from Russia. [img] This is captured Soviet T34 tank salvaged from a lake. [img] Finnish Brewster Buffalo shot down...
Last Japanese Soldier to Surrender was in 1980! The last Japanese soldier to surrender was Captain Fumio Nakahira who held out until April, 1980,...
THE LOST DIVISION Around 19,000 American soldiers had deserted in France and in Germany at the end of 1945, many living on farms and working as...
Or the Blom and Voss 141 [img]
Sounds more like friendly fire incidents to me rather than use of captured planes.
The more interesting scenario would have been the German defeat of the RAF and no immediate invasion. The Luftwaffe would have been relatively...
correct! Wikipedia makes it too easy!
I should have googled harder. This looks promising. Cassini Conversion Btw I managed to get the local Home Guard's Intelligence Officers file...
Okay here's my question. Which location on the US mainland was the first to be shelled by the Axis in WW2?
Does anyone know of any program or website that converts wartime Cassini Map refs to OS map refs?
Oberleutnant Franz von Werra from Canada across the St Lawrence to (then) neutral USA. Worth checking out "The One That Got Away" with Hardy...
Use to play Operational Art of War . Is there a more modern equivalent?
I think if this was a military camp it was taken over by the post-war squatters, as they seem to have been "civilianised" Here's a link to an...
Here's some pics of the Bodney ground defences from a few years ago. Bodney Battle HQ and Pillboxes
Here's an interesting one I've received recently which the forum may be able to solve, although I'm not at all certain that this is military...
Martin, Muckleburgh are apparently looking at reconstructing the AA defences and a section of the beachfront anti-invasion defences. I'd...
yep that works, fascinating piece of detective work! How do you find these?
Gordon your posting above brings up some Linux test page. Re P/O Clarke memorial, I stumbled across it looking for invasion defences in the area...
