A long while since I posted here but someone asking me about something from a thread in 2003 brought me back here and thought I'd log in for a...
Glad you found it of interest. It was certainly an interesting eight months covering it all. Some photos from the dig here: Messines Ep 1 - a...
Thanks for the feedback, appreciated.
Thanks - link now sorted.
An easy way to share all those thousands of photos I take every year. Italy content coming up this weekend. Enjoy! Second World War Battlefields
You can read a little more about my involvement in the series here: Paul Reed, Historical Consultant | War Hero In My Family | Channel 5
This series starts on BBC1 Northern Ireland tomorrow night @ 21.00. It is also available via Sky Ch 973 and Virgin Ch 863. BBC One - Dig WW2 with...
Thanks - more coming up tonight.
I spent last winter working on this series as the series historical consultant and also as a contributor. It will start on Channel 5 in the UK...
He might do training in his local regiment but to be honest after that he could have been posted anywhere. If you looked up the details of some of...
Of the troops who landed on D-Day only units from the 3rd Division took part in the fighting for Caen. The units from 50 Div were in the Bocage...
Great photos.We must have passed each other as I was in Berlin at the same time! Great place, which I am gradually becoming addicted to!You might...
Thanks Martin.The Spitfire dig we covered last week was quite amazing.
As some members here know I am currently working on a new BBC series called Dig WW2 which will be shown on UK TV next winter and also broadcast in...
Good to see the site back to normal.
That's not exactly true, especially in the case of British Territorial Divisions. There were whole Brigades of battalions from the same regiment...
Just flagging this up again as the series starts tonight on BBC1 at 7.30pm. BBC - BBC One Programmes - Dig 1940, Battle of France and Dunkirk
Details below of the new series starting on BBC1 15 December @ 19.30. Currently only for the UK members of the forum but it is likely it will sold...
Looking good, Otto, and bodes well for us over at ww2talk.
Very sad - I met him in 1984, and saw him several times over later anniversaries. A modest man.
