Air Vice Marshal Wilfrid Oulton, CR, CRE, DSO, DFC, was a trained fighter pilot then chose to change to flying boats. However, he found himself...
Convoy PQ17 had become the bait in a trial of strength between the Allied and German Navies. A serious error of judgement resulted in a huge...
2,175 graves: 2,150 British, 11 Canadian, 5 Australian, 2 New Zealanders, 5 Polish, 2 unknown [IMG] Situated outside the village, near the...
The fighting quality of the men at Longues-sur-Mer was variable. It would seem that the crews of the coastal batteries to some extent suffered the...
The Longues-sur-Mer battery was the responsibility of the naval commander for the western sector of Normandy Rear-Admiral Walther Hennecke, who...
To improve detection of enemy movements, the range-finding post was backed up by two observation posts located a few kilometres east and west of...
"Do you know how we behaved to the civilians? We behaved like devils out of Hell. We left those poor villagers to starve to death, thousands and...
Second pattern Luftwaffe decal on camouflage-painted helmet. This second pattern Luftwaffe decal appears on an M1940 helmet camouflage-painted...
1: Early Grey Lined Army Decal Insignia produced during the transition from the Reichswehr to the Wehrmacht were slightly different from those...
Its amazing that after all these years that finds like this still happen, thou it makes you wonder why it took so long when it was common...
Of the 9,386 soldiers interred at Colleville, three of them received the Congress Medal of Honour, the highest distinction of their Country. Frank...
General Koniev, whose troops made a highly successful counter-attack on the central sector of the German armies in Russia, routing a German...
(1) A German plane towing three troop carrying gliders, or air trailers. The rear one was attached by cable to the tail unit of the towing plane;...
"We are living in hell." This was the incessant refrain of the letters which have been smuggled out of German occupied Poland. The photographs...
During the struggle for air supremacy over the British shores a vast number of German aircraft had been shot down into the sea or had been so...
In thousands of homes in this country and in the Empire overseas thoughts turned to a husband or father, son, brother or lover who was "kicking...
The first British awards to be given to Polish airmen were made in December, 1940, when four pilots of the Polish Squadron of the R.A.F were...
British Submarine in German Navy According to the German's in April 1940 the submarine "HM Submarine Seal" reported by the British Admiralty...