From The Times, Thursday, May 2, 1940: [ATTACH] ENEMY CRASH AT CLACTON TWO DEAD AND 156 INJURED HAVOC OF HEINKEL MINE-LAYER CLACTON, MAY 1 A...
This could be quite a large and interesting thread and provide much debate. Virtually all members will be able to participate. May even require...
A rather nice story from ATB's OMG. Beek lies right on the Dutch-German border and on September 21 the Sherwood Rangers' recce troop under Captain...
On a trip to the Maritime Museum at Bremerhaven I spied the U-Boat across the dock basin and payed a visit. A truly modern submarine for the...
Hallo all I've seen footage of German infantry using hand signals during an attack and wondered if the germans 'invented' these signals? They...
A Bristol man's dedication to his father's memory has led to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) issuing the last ever World War I award to him...
In the closing minutes of World War I, the ceasefire within touching distance, a handful of troops died. As the 90th anniversary of the Armistice...
On the 16th October 1908, Samuel Franklin Cody, an American - born Showman and entrepreneur who had brought his Wild West Show to Britain some...
July 24th 2008 Oldest Living Medal Of Honor Winner Turns 99 John Finn, who now is not only the first recipient in World War II to be awarded...
The Arado Ar234 was the first purpose-built jet bomber, its type also made the last recorded German wartime flight over the UK on 10 April 1945...
The last British & Commonwealth battle casualty on the Western Front in WW1 is well known, but what of the last in the fighting for NW Europe? The...
LanSeaAir question #10 10. What was the first major German City to be captured by U.S. troops in WW2 October 21, 1944: In the West, the US...
The Times December 12, 2006 [IMG]...
The first RAN ship & US ship sunk in WW2 were sunk near the place where the first shots of WW1 & WW2 were both made. (Near where I live in...
On the night of 2-3 May 1945, the RAF flew its last raid on Germany when 125 Mosquitos of 608 Squadron dropped 174 metric tons of bombs on the...
Here's the article: DefenseLINK News: Last WWII Comanche Code Talker Visits Pentagon, Arlington Cemetery And a couple of photos: JT
Correct me if this is incorrect. My local weekly, the Coleraine Chronicle on November 4 1939 reported that Mrs. J Nicholls of Dewsbury, Yorks...
Where was the first shot fired in the Far East by an allied nation in WW2?
Does anybody know the answer to this trivia teaser?
ARMY secretary Susan Hibbert kept one of the biggest secrets of the war... the fact it was over. In 1945, aged just 20, she was given the job of...
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