Convoy tactics are abysmal. The BTG is conceptually an abject failure when having to engage a near-peer adversary. They don't have the depth to...
Hi, Below are some dates and locations for LCA 449. She certainly moved around a bit. Is the photograph online ? Regards Danny...
Searching using Landing Craft Assault 449 does find a couple of photos from Operation Torch, with US Army aboard. Using the search option on this...
I have seen a photograph of LCA 449 (Landing Craft Assault) The photograph was taken after the war and I would like to know a little more about...
Not strictly what you seek Rob. Yesterday in an article on the Falklands War forty years later there was this: The comment was by a then young...
Hereward, I wonder if you (or anyone else reading this for that matter) could tell me to the best of your knowledge if the 16/5 lancers were...
Award Military Medal Sgt. George Harry (Hannay?) Wilson, (2979257) No. 9 Commando (A & S H) [ATTACH] [ATTACH] WO 373/14/733 [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has any idea of the internal structure of 30 AU in North West Europe (in A, B and X Troops) as I have been...
Bump - March 23rd, 1945, was D-Day for the Rhine Crossing. Officially it was labelled D-1 (D minus 1); D-Day being the 24th, the day that the...
Luke Post VE Day locations – 26 Armoured Engineer Squadron Meppen north-west of Osnabrück 10 May 45 – Coevorden-NL north-east of Zwolle-NL 19 Jun...
Luke, Welcome aboard. Others may come along and help. Always apply for his Service Record, even if the turnaround is reported as a year plus now....
They've taken heavy losses in leaders, according to Rob Lee. All the best Andreas
Hi All, Apologies if this is in the wrong place. I'm a new member today. My grandfather Walter William Blaney was a Royal Engineer, but was...
Those two tanks are T-64BV, probably operated by forces from Donetsk as Russian army is not using this model. This could explain horrible tactics...
VDV's 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade is currently being used up piecemeal as an ordinary light mechanised brigade outside Kyiv because the...
Yesterday on Twitter, from a Russian source, footage of BMP APC's emerging from a tunnel, reportedly heading to the front and adorned with a...
Award Military Medal Rfn. William Green, 2nd Bn Royal Ulster Rifles (14401161) WO 373/52/466 [ATTACH] Wounded January 1945
Martin, Peter Lawrence de Carteret (Oral history) British officer served with 2nd (MG) Bn Cheshire Regt, 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Div in...
Manstein on Sturmartillerie/Stugs: (Clipped from Spielberger in an earlier thread)
You're right. I've never understood the difference between assault gun and tank destroyer/SP ATG roles. I imagine there was a lot of crossover...
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