I would have needed a very long hard look at these aircraft if the picture wasn't captioned, but I agree with Andy that they are Mustang IIIs, the...
Someone had to put mend the boots! Napoleon said that "an army marches on its stomach". In other words, the entire strategy of the war is...
My first thought is, if it was part of an airfield, where is the runway? And if it is on a mound, this makes it less likely to be an airfield (which...
A brave man, who, though he survived, paid a heavy price
I'm glad you're all ok and really hope the worst is over now. My brother and his family live in a new house in Lysterfield, VIC. I've been in...
Fascinating - I think it was only in 1900 that Marconi had sent his first wireless signal across the Atlantic. And it was a year after the...
I found a bit more on Ross Smith. This is a contemporary account of his death. It says he was killed near Croydon aerodrome, not Brooklands as in...
Audrey Roche - Telegraph Audrey Roche, who died on January 13 aged 90, is thought to have been the only woman decorated for bravery at sea...
That's a shame; he put a huge amount of energy into that site, and I remember him writing that he was recovering from illness when he started it....
Landsturmmann was one of several designations of a soldier, equivalent to Private, in the Reserves of the German Armies.
Sir Keith Smith had been an observer in Handley Page O/400s in the war, so had the necessary navigational skills for the record breaking flight. He...
This article was interesting. A few comments: The submarines that attacked Crisps boat, at that time called I'll Try, were UB6 and UB16. These...
This depends what you mean by "in the war". My father was too young and both my grandfathers too old to fight. But that doesn't mean they weren't...
I knew it was a lot - have you counted how many are in the list? ! Some were fitted with light armament, in order to protect the rest of the...
Well I got to work today; there was no new snowfall. But I had to shovel literally three feet of snow off the top of the car and from the front of it...
Here we have had the worst snowfall in London for 18 years. I didn't get to work today. As soon as I looked out of the window this morning, I...
Two thoughts: 1) Was he Jewish - his name sounds as though he could have been - and was that why he was sent to a concentration camp? 2) So if...
McGillivray was still only 18, and Watchorn not yet 21
Its a shame, but flying that low over a village, it does look as though he was playing silly b**gers. But I guess we all did daft things when we...
This website suggests that he does in fact have a grave or at least a cremation plaque: http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/devonshi.htm I would...
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