Today is the 78th anniversary of the operation by Bomber Command to Hamburg, 28/29-July-1944. 22 aircraft from 6-Group were lost on the raid, the...
With the green light from a Forum moderator here's a synopsis of a book just published. "My Wartime Wanderings" by Kenneth L Phillips, 6969044, B...
I'm researching my Dad's war service and know he was in the Royal Engineers. I have his service record, but I'd love to know what all the...
My uncle, Gordon Herbert Batchelor, was a pilot with 54 Squadron and a POW from July 9th 1941, when he was shot down over France. He landed up in...
Hi Does anyone know about an ammunition factory in Hamburg my grandmother worked in it and she was there on the night it was bombed. The picture...
Guys, I am looking for someone to take a headstone picture for me at Ohlsdorfer Friedhof Ohlsdorf, Hamburg-Nord, Hamburg, Germany PLOT Coll....
I have unearthed these two post card size photographs that show Hamburg after an air raid. They are odd in that I wouldn't have imagined that the...
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4449307 Reference: WO 171/9201 Description: 2 Irish Gds. Date: 1946 Jan.- June
Taken in Hamburg two days before VE day
CSM Desmond Lynch, DCM seated far right, with dog.
Please can anyone help? My father, Corporal Denis Henry Springett, was a tank commander of a Churchill tank who transferred on 13 Jan 1944 from...
This is my first post and I hope all members and guests who read this will realise what I am trying to achieve. I have written similar on other...
Which battalion(s) of the Irish Guards were in Hamburg at the end of hostilities ?:confused:
When I was young, we had a very impressive set of knives and forks which my father had brought back from Germany after the war. On the handles,...
Does anyone know where the records for this unit are located and the level of detail in said records? I'm trying to track one particular vehicle...
Footage of Port of Hamburg in 1938 (with a surprising minimal amount of swastika's and several tugs named "Fairplay") contrasted with footage from...
I have been lent these pics by a pensioner who i am doing some work for. I believe they were taken just after the war by her father, who i would...
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