C A Lewis is Cecil Lewis, the author of Sagittarius Rising, a classic of WW1 aviation published in 1936. He was barely 19 when this photo was...
Hi Nick I can't find a picture specifically of HSL108, but she was almost certainly of the HSL100 class in these pictures. HSL116 as illustrated...
Lets not be too Anglo-centric or Aussie-centric! The first casualties of WW2 probably occurred when the German Battleship Schleswig-Holstein...
They say the Navy and the Merchant Navy never had a "phoney war".
Spidge Do you mean the Atcherly brothers, David and Richard? Trouble is, they were twins and I'm not sure which was the eldest. Otherwise,...
The first RAF crews killed in action were those killed in the raid on the Kiel Canal in which Booth was captured on 4th September. One of these men...
He was the nephew of Keith "Grid" Caldwell, WW1 pilot, and the highest-scoring (or second-highest-scoring, depending how you count) New Zealand ace...
Spidge is right! Park is credited with 20 victories. This is the text from theaerodrome.com:
Identify this father and son, both fighter pilots. I was going to post this sad but moving story as a thread in its own right, copying the link...
Ok thanks, I'll think of something by tomorrow....
I have always had a feeling that the UK needs the USA more than they need us. The so-called Special Relationship bolsters the British Post-Empire...
If this wreck is indeed U40, then it was torpedoed by HMS C24, which was being towed underwater by a decoy trawler. The position given in this link...
USS Juneau was an Atlanta class anti-aircraft cruiser. Only ten men survived her sinking. Atlanta was lost on the same day, Nov 13th 1942 at...
So Annie and David can be in the same country, and one has snow and one has 70 degrees! I guess America is quite a big place then! :nod:
According to ***************** [edit: a well-known site that always gets censored out] he had six victories in all (though all shared); he served as...
I've read this before, but thinking about it: are we sure? 1111 loops would take a very long time. It would be an enormous feat of endurance for...
Mahatma Gandhi was a Hindu! The "Mahatma Coat" joke is a very old one and not particularly funny. But its not really racist, just a play on...
This is certainly a story that deserves to be better known. I guess that part of the war, being essentially a defeat for the Allies, has never been...
Colonel John Brough - Telegraph Colonel John Brough, who has died aged 89, commanded a company in an action in Burma in which one of his men was...
Commander Michael St John - Telegraph Commander Michael St John, who has died aged 93, was involved a dramatic operation on the island of Rhodes...
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