Oops! You are right!-I had been drinking Scotch last night!-it was Channel 4!. But do you know if Goering's claim to have aided two Jewish sisters...
Erich ''The Bloody Munster'' book is really good I was amazed by the author's revelation that the bombing point was given as ''the steps of...
Excellent programme on B.B.C. about Goering at the Nuremburg trials of 1946.The actor who played Goering was superb in conveying his undoubted...
I'm baffled as i poste yesterday on Elmer Bendiner's 1981 8th Air Force classic-''the Fall of Fortresses''-about-but not exclusively the...
Good posts-Jager and NO-9-I''ll rsspond in greater detail soon.thanks!
Correction ''The Fall of Fortesses''
For me, one of the best 8th Air Force books is Elmer Bendiner's ''The Fall of Fortresses'' about the first Schweinfurt raid and first published in...
Yes, Number 9!-that is fair point. But I also wonder if the relative ease with which British Combined Operations succeeded on raids to the...
This is the anniversary of the Dieppe Raid where Canadian troops were shot to hell while making an ill-considered raid on Dieppe under Lord Louis...
Kai that doesn't suprise me as I have on video, a tape about a group of Waffen-S.S. men who went back in in 1989 to be reunited with some Soviet...
Thanks Mr Paterson for your reply-I like Sizemore the actor very much-he brings a William Bendixesque(I used to love Bendix in all those 1940's...
Hey Canadian man and all you other posters-sorry to harp on but ''England'' wasn't at war with Germany-it was the United Kingdom-England,...
Hi Mr Paterson!- is that your picture or Tom Sizemore's face I see?-I like Sizemore-especially in his ''Saving Private Ryan'' role. Pittsburg?...
Before Goering was corrupted by Nazism he was capable of chivalry towards his enemies. In June 2006, I visited Perth, Western Australia, and spent...
Yes I'd forgotten about that!-Gordon get yourself over to Port Seton East Lothian as the family of on eof the fisherman who pulled one of the...
No-9 Tom Hunter V.C.'s grave-is it near Lake something in Italy?-a young Edimburgh amateur boxer who also came from the same street as 'T.H.' and...
Gordon!-one of 602's outstanding fighter pilots Archie McKellar D.F.C. and D.S.O. went to Shawlands Academy in Glasgow-the same school as Ian...
Thanks Number 9!-incredibly I was thinking about you the other day and when you went up to Spean Bridge to the Commando monument and I told you...
Yes Gordon, and can you tell what is the connection between 602 City of Glasgow squadron and the infamous ''Moors Murderer''Ian Brady?.
Which just proves where George Orwell perhaps,got his inspiration for his main character Winston Smith in the novel ''1984.'' It will be recalled...
