Progressive development had been the keynote during the fourth year of Britain's Home Guard army, which was first formed under the title of Local...
In war there are always innocent casualties. Sometimes, for purposes of maintaining morale during WW2 some tragedies were not widely reported. Of...
This review of the book "The Home Guard of Britain" was first written in 1943. Who first thought of a Home Guard for Britain? There are many...
It's the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain this year. 15th September is Battle of Britain Day as this saw the heaviest aerial fighting of...
[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] Heinkel He 111 Role Medium bomber Manufacturer Heinkel Flugzeugwerke Designed by Siegfried and...
Canada's war supplies were to be shared by the United Nations on the basis of strategic needs without financial consideration. In making this...
John Alexander "Jack" French (1914 - 1942) soldier and barber, was born on 15 July 1914 at Crows Nest, near Toowoomba, Queensland, third of five...
At the billet the birds of the Army Pigeon Service have their individual well appointed quarters. Here they are rested after a “lesson” and their...
[img] Seen from beside the guns in the stem of a British destroyer, a convoy of Allied merchantmen stream away to the horizon and beyond....
A quartet of the advanced units of the vast force which the United States sent to Britain in readiness to take part in the European theatre of...
Reported in the War Illustrated May 1942 Pte. Nora Caveney, of Walsden, near Rochdale, Lancashire was the first of Britain's A.A girls to be...
It is common in wars for troops to arrange local truces and cease-fires with their opponents. Sometimes this occurs between nations when there are...
At the beginning of World War II, aircraft design had far outstripped the design of aircraft weapons. During the Battle of Britain, the famous...
Lieutenant Joseph Hardy of the Border Regiment landed outside Arnhem. His actions under fire and, as the recommendation for his MC stated, ‘his...
Major-General Robert 'Roy' Urquhart was born in 1901, the son of a doctor. He passed out from Sandhurst in 1920 and, in the early days of war,...
The figures of the construction workers give an indication of the size of these concrete caissons which formed the outer breakwater for each of...
Although New Zealand lied at the other end of the world, so far away that her people had no need of black-outs, gas masks, or air-raid shelters,...
A Merchant Ship is nearing completion on the stocks and was soon be launched from one of Britain's yards. Speaking at Liverpool on March 22 1941,...
Air Marshal Sir P. B. Joubert De La Ferte, new Coastal Command Chief, was seconded to R.F.C. in 1913. He was one of Britain's greatest authorities...
Bombs for Berlin are about to be loaded up on one of the great Wellington bombers with which the Royal Air Force had shown the Germans that the...