Some of these pictures can be found else where in the forums, thou i thought it was a good idea to add a crisbecq picture only thread as well as...
I bought this book a few years ago on the recommendation of someone from another website, i am pleased i did. Denis Edwards was an Airborne sniper...
The Deed. He was 35 years old, and a Temporary Major in The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, British Army, attd. The South Staffordshire...
Doies anyone know why the Germans on thier retreat from Paris did not raise the city, I have always found it curious that they left it intact?
Utah Beach was the furthest west of the five beaches designated for the D-Day landings in June 1944. Located at the base of the Cotentin...
Omaha Beach If there is one place where the Landings nearly failed, it is, of course, Omaha Beach. Although the place chosen for the...
without a dowt in the world i think Saving Private Ryan is the best war film off all time and it has been voted the best War of all time
Found this to be a very good read, but what made think it is a litte biased!! On 1st September 1944 Eisenhower took over formal command of all...
Force `G', containing the ships carrying the assault waves to Gold Beach, arrived at the point from which the landing craft were to be launched...
By the Spring of 1944, the Allied preparations for the invasion of France and the initial stages for the liberation of western Europe (Operation...
The DUKW was designed by Rod Stephens Jr of Sparkman & Stephens Inc. (Yacht Designers), Dennis Puleston, a British Deep Water Sailor & Frank W....
Double Trouble [IMG] B-17F-25-DL 42-3082 Double Trouble of the 333rd BS/94th BG, Bury St Edmunds (Rougham), October 1943 This Fortress...
No aircraft in history made a greater contribution to aviation technology than the B-29 Superfortress, which thrust boldly forward in structure,...
[img] Operation "Neptune/Overlord" were the code names for the 6 June 1 944 D-Day Landings on the Normandy coast of German-occupied France....
In the 1930's the RAF were concerned with Twin Engined Medium Bombers such as the Handley Page Hampden & Armstrong Whitworth Whitley. In the USA &...
HEy, that's the very first mention of these devices I've heard since 'The Longest Day'. Makes the film even more real, to me anyway:thumb:
War44.com has been given permission from Sapper Brian Guy to use in parts facts taken from the book “Cameos of War” that he wrote regarding his...
Let me first start by thanking Walter for sending me by email his personal story of the days leading up to and including D-Day thru to the VE Day....
There were seven so called static divisions of German infantry manning coastal defences in Normandy. They were the 243rd, 265th, 266th, 326th,...