I guess it is a cliche' but true that Germans soldiers lived in fear of being sent to the Russia front. This got me thinking (dangerous I know:))...
Ian Fenwick, the famous cartoonist killed in 1944 with 1 SAS, was by the first day of 1943 the commandant of No.4 Special Training School at...
I was hoping some of the board members might remember / know something about the branch of the SME that opened up in Capua in 1944. My...
I have come across reference to two Battle Schools for Urban Warfare set up in 1943 for formations to learn urban warfare skills - what today...
An interesting year to remember the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan during WW2 The BCATP museum in Brandon, Manitoba states: “During its...
Hello. I am trying to find out some information about two of my great uncles, my grandad's brother and my grandma's brother. All I know is...
In 1945, many of the ''alien' guys serving with the Pioneer Corps went across to the 'Interpreters School'. Does anyone know where this unit was...
Group portrait of RAAF members of No 1 Course, Empire Air Training Scheme in Ottawa, Canada. These were the first Australian trainee pilots sent...
Anyone with info on Squadron 11 RAF WW2? My father, a Canadian, was posted to the Squadron in late 1943 -- they flew Hurricanes on the...
Diary of Thomas E. Nash. Some years ago a diary dating from 1943 was handed in at the Hornchurch RBL and it has recently come to my attention....
Funny little list in George & Anne Forty's 'Bovington Tanks' that I'd forgotten about, but may be useful to someone (I could have used it a few...
From The War Illustrated, Jan 24 1941: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Good morning I have just joined your forum after trying to find out more online about the burials in St Marys, Kidlington, Oxfordshire burial...
Hello and thanks for hosting this site I am pretty much a newbie to all of this so i welcome any advice in my search. My interest is in the RAF...
Just before Christmas, these photos of my father-in-law, now deceased, were found tucked away in a box by my sister-in-law. I really had little...
Im thinking of buying the book Target Leipzig as one of the servicemen im researching was killed on this raid. Anyone seen the book and can they...
I am trying to unravel my late father’s career in the RAF during the war. He was LVH Horrigan 1577094, a wireless operator in the RAF from July...
A request to our british veterans. Did you attend battleschools in the war, or was the battledrills taught at the regimental depots? I have...
From The Times 10 February, 1943: [ATTACH]
I am hoping that one of the veterans on here maybe able to help me on this one, I have been going through my granddads service records and came...
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