Award Military Cross Lt. Peter Frederick King No. 4 Commando (DCLI) 328163 Since 6th June 1944 this officer has continually been conspicuous both...
Awards Mentioned in Despatches Lieutenant Jack Lee Fairweather & Lieutenant John Merserau Veness, 1st Bn North Nova Scotia Highlanders, Canadian...
ABSTRACT A SPECIAL FORCE: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE JEDBURGH PROJECT IN SUPPORT OF OPERATION OVERLORD by Major Wyman W. Irwin, USA, 211 pages....
Hi guys, my names Ben I'm 57 and live in Lincolnshire. I served in the RAF for 27 yrs and currently drive petrol tankers for a living. Ive been...
We at TracesOfWar.com have done a lot of research the past years and made a few trips to Kew to copy War Diaries of units mostly involved in...
Personal Number: 5517 Rank: Major-General Name: Robert Knox ROSS, CB, DSO, MC, MiD** Unit: Queen's Royal Regiment London Gazette : 4 February...
Now the long winter evenings are here, I thought I'd transcribe a few more RASC diaries for summer 1944. I hope they are of interest/ I've...
I have been trying to compile a list of all of the Company Commanders and above that landed on D-Day. I have yet to find a comprehensive list...
New information has emerged by which the allocation of 2 RMAS Bty Tps, as initiated in this post, may now be refined (and corrected). The same...
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Hello everybody, I have been trying for a while to determine the actual LCT Hull numbers of the craft which carried each troop of 147 Fd Regt RA...
Roy Martin submitted a new resource: D-Day merchant ships - Merchant ships involved in the Normandy Landings Another chapter from my book Ebb...
Personal Number: 99246 Rank: Lieutenant-Colonel Name: Iain Arthur MURRAY, DSO* Unit: Grenadier Guards ; Glider Pilot Regiment London Gazette :...
Taken from an American website:To commemorate the 76th anniversary of D-Day, The OSS Society will release "Operation Overlord: OSS and the Battle...
D.Day. One of the biggest events that changed the World. Many of us on this forum had relatives involved. Many of us have been to Normandy...
WWII Glider Pilot Regiment hero dies aged 100 | Daily Mail Online Last surviving hero from WWII Glider Pilot Regiment who dropped Allied troops...
Mike is about to start posting an account of the landings on Utah Beach by US VII Corps on D Day 1944. The core document is the Landing Table for...
When i watch some of the popular videos about D-day, they stress the two areas of Calais or Normandy. I never hear why the other spots were not...
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