My mates dad was a sapper and landed on Sword Beach on D-day... he is dead for some years but his soldiers release book has just turned up and...
This made me smile, the story of Lieutenant Bob Orrell of 91 Field Company RE and how he captured the Bunker in a tremendously British manner......
Here is a selection of the many defensive works I came across last week. Any comments are very much welcome.. This casemate is overlooking Sword...
I found this amusing photograph at the NARA II, College Park, MD, last month. The caption reads: "What was intended to be a formidable trap...
I stumbled on this gem of a first hand account by Lt Cresswell MC in another file by accident this week. Pages are taken from WO 217/9 Personal...
For a TV project I'm working on we are trying to find detailed plans of the Atlantic Wall defences at Juno Beach, specifically on Mike Beach. If...
Spotted these in a back garden in Blandford. I wonder how many of these are left around the country? And who and how they decided on their...
I am trying to find a place on the Maginot Line called "Stolbusch wood". This is where 1st Gordons of the 51st Highland Division initially...
Hi, First time post so please go easy on a newbie. Each year I holiday in Northern Italy and generally drive down trying to take in somewhere...
My local dentist relocated some time ago from Spandau to the Gesundbrunner Shopping Centre in Wedding, which is about an hour by car in heavy...
Mornin'. A friend of mine was an Army brat, and remembers playing in wartime Bunkers on the base he lived on in Germany in the 70s. They're gone...
Hi all - im a new poster and look forward to my time here. My main reason for joining the forums is that Im a 3D Modelor and after reading...
Hello. Last summer I made a trip into France and visited several locations of the Atlantikwall in the Normandie, like Point du Hoc and Battery...
Hello I am new on this forum and would like to make a sort introduction of my interest and work. I am searching, visiting and taking pictures of...
If anyone wants questions asked? About Pegasus; or anywhere else? Then ask that particular question. I have never refused to answer FULLY. The...
English Russia ยป WW2 Bunkers In The Present-Day Russian Forests
I've read several conflicting accounts of the first Ad-Hoc pier (Example Below) being thrown together on the beaches to help with the evacuation...
During our Shipmates Reunion, we were given a privet tour of the above ,and during the time there ,i was shown some metal charts . And being a...
I am preparing a presentation to the Local History Society on 'The Defence of Great Bedwyn'. This is a village in Wiltshire on the Blue Line,...
A chap on WW2F raised the subject of German 20cm & 38cm Spigot mortars for Engineer use, so I splashed the details from Gander's encyclopedia...
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