It was used on several vessels: this picture is the aircraft carrier HMS Argus [1918]. Quite literally, it works on the saem princpal as a...
Interesting - I've only had time to read the summary, but it seems the testers were impressed. I don't think the recommendation for British fighters...
I'm suprised that Warner Bros allowed the Fort to be the one that explodes! The whole idea doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. True, but I...
Thanks for these - though I need a bigger broadbandwidth; it was taking too long to download these high-res pic. And welcome to the Forum!
A thought: apart from the fact that having only one leg was not considered necessarily a bar to pilot training, was it deliberate that he was posted...
Ernest Millington seems to have been an interesting man, who lived by his principles throughout his life. Wing Commander Ernest Millington -...
The tragedy of Belleau Wood was that the Americans insisted on using the full-frontal attacks that the British had learned not to use after the Somme...
Hamel is a small village on the Somme front line, a between Beaumont Hamel and Thiepval. (I've been to both those places, but don't really remember...
I recently met a Dunkirk veteran - Colin Ashmore, the well-known aviation artist. He says that he went to war with a spade - the BEF were trained...
My wife certainly believes that women are more decisive and make up their minds quicker... There are persistent rumours of Turkish women snipers...
There are some pre-fabs still around now. I worked in Peckham about ten years ago and there were certainly some there in the back streets - still...
Seriously though, I think I would have prefered a Pre-Fab if I was homeless. The Horsa conversions would have been cold and cramped, which shows (a)...
I must admit I never read any Roald Dahl when I was young (I think I was already too old...) but my daughters have acquired a copy of the combined...
They were purely darts; usually dropped from canisters containing a couple of dozen. Both sides tried them; they were supposed to be for use against...
Going back to the issue of three-seaters: in fact most carrier-borne torpedo bombers and even some dive-bombers were three-seaters, not two-seaters....
I was about nine years old when I read about Jack Cornwell, in the Arthur Mee Children's Encyclopedia. One of the factors that meant that WW1 has...
Fascinating stuff! But it's weird seeing colour footage taken 70 years ago; it makes the subject seem contemporary, but in fact almost none of the...
I believe the (much smaller) RNAS had up to two-thirds Canadian pilots at some stage - possibly mid-1916 to mid 17.
This is probably a pre-war shot. There were virtually no occasions when such a large German force set sail in the war, except Jutland and they had no...
I looked up Jacka's reference on Wikipedia because I seemed to remember that he was awarded a DSO at Pozieres, but I was wrong it was an MC. It is...
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