I've a feeling that if you were legitimately IN the Defence Zone, your National ID Card stamped appropriately etc...the "Zone" itself would be...
It's something I've been lamenting for many years now - that there's no Schenk equivalent for British anti-invasion preparations. there are some...
I can also tell you that the many and various books on the Sealion period are equally "thin" on this particular aspect, except to say there were...
Just had a quick google round, and found snippets like this...
Dover was the only town truly "closed", its administration was turned over to the Navy very early in the war IIRC...there's a couple fo short...
I'm not sure that by 1940 the Italian aero industry as yet could have made use of any linkup with the Finns or anywhere else. It's axiomatic in...
If you've had the pleasure of holding a good ol' ex. N.I. Troubles' paramilitary "homemade submachinegun" let alone firing one - I've held one but...
Interesting, I know Robert Ballard found a Roman cargo ship in perfect condition when he went looking for evidence of the pre-Flood dry land and...
Kurt Schwitters, the German-born Dadaist artist, when interned in the Isle of Man in the "intellectuals' camp", a number of houses on Hutchinson...
In July1940, The British government selected Sefton Delmer, then working for the Ministry of Propaganda at the BBC, to broadcast a repudiation of...
In the UK, during WWII, despite conscription, women having to take the place of men in industry and agriculture etc., etc.....there was still on...
The War Ministry in London settled 19 paternity cases without question "arising" from the British occupation of the Faroe islands. The islands'...
Now that's interesting; regarding Bamford's books, you don't happen to know how he deals with the supposed 1940 "mutiny", do you?
RAF aircrew survival kits contained two packets of benzedrine tablets, clearly labelled as such. Crew bailing out at sea were to use them to stay...
Just reading through the last two pages I noticed a couple of points worth addressing... On the issue of diesel versions of the Panther, it's...
Sadly, archeological doctrine is even more relunctant to grasp change than Roman Catholic dogma LOL And archeologists who step outside the bounds...
I.E. heavy ;) They could take lighter and more manouverable fighters with fast diving "boom'n'zoom" attacks - drop down on a target from above and...
Sadly, in most places in the UK BoB Day passes with the only reminder being an occasional table in the foyer of a supermarket and a couple of more...
Choosing to climb to avoid an attacking fighter wasn't a common manouver - as you were fighting gravity as well as the enemy ;) Climbing was...
Is it just ME that's really getting suspicious of the number of historical events that are being dated to c. 12,5-600 years ago??? Earlier this...
