The assault by the 8th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, on Sword Beach was somewhat similar to the US 4th Infantry Division at Utah, landing along...
Omaha Beach was the only landing area where the outcome was ever in doubt. The fighting raged for 18 hours, concentrated around the "draws," the...
In October 1939, accepting the fact that the conquest of Poland, however impressive, would not prompt Great Britain and France to withdraw from...
Major General Sir Percy Hobart Percy Hobart joined the Royal Engineers in 1904 and then in 1906 transferred to the engineers in the Indian Army....
Cut off from the world in the fortifications which they had been ordered to defend to the end, 22,000 troops in the Maginot Line were still...
It would have been a sad state of affairs if Mussolini and his tame propagandists were to have been believed that Italy's 13-day war with France...
From time immemorial Man has sheltered in fortresses designed to withstand a long siege and to resist the strongest weapons of the age. Though...
“Crisbecq” was one of the first batteries to open fire the morning of June 6 on Utah. With the exception of the Cherbourg Fortress and the...
Undoubtedly POW’s of various nationalities were also used to supplement the labour pool to work for the Organisation Todt, which was welcomed by...
Pegasus was the name given to a bridge over the Caen canal, near the town of Ouistreham. The bridge, also known as the Benouville Bridge after the...
The Todt Organisation It was the Todt Organisation that was put in charge of building the various Atlantic Wall structures. This Organisation...
The purpose of the Atlantic Wall was to prevent enemy landings along the coast stretching from Norway to the Pyrenees and its development can be...
On my first visit to Normandy I came across four coastal German batteries at a place called longues sur-Mer, situated in the Bay of the Seine, to...
History would prove that Churchill was meant to be a wartime Prime Minister, not a peacetime one. After Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich,...