Friend of the Karen: Major Hugh Seagrim GC The Karen people made tremendous sacrifices for the British in WW2 and were never rewarded. They continue...
Five airships were shot down over England, as follows: SL11, commanded by Hauptmann William Schramm, was brought down on the night of 2nd/3rd...
47 Knots does seem fast. I haven't been able to ascertain the speed of this class; 47 knots is not completely impossible, but 37 knots seems more...
I think this has suffered from translation! Hangar-ship is of course an aircraft carrier. HMS Furious, converted from a battle-cruiser, later had a...
Rear-Admiral Courtney Anderson - Telegraph Rear-Admiral Courtney Anderson, who has died aged 92, began a distinguished operational career as a...
Virgin: the world's best passenger complaint letter? - Telegraph
Thanks, useful site - I've put it in "Favourites"; may even get round to reading it sometime! I nearly burst a blood vessel when I saw that...
Technology changed radically during the decade before WW1, and with the exception of the Dreadnought battleships it was not driven by the prospect of...
Lucky for us it didn't enter service. Overcomplex of course; I wonder if there was anything it could do that a FW Ta152 or a ME262 jet couldn't do...
http://www.mckenzie.uk.com/zeebrugge/index.htm Following the post about William Helman of Guernsey, the above site is another sad story, of Albert...
There doesn't seem much point to this periscope; he seems to be standing on open ground, and the lenses are no higher than his head. As there are...
Did this come from *****************? This is an American website. A slight bias on their part perhaps, claiming him as an American on the basis of...
David This must be a highly treasured possession of yourself and your mother. I presume that the notion of him being a POW was far too...
Relevant to this thread and the one of Major-General Throsby Bridges: One of the myths of WW1 is that the Generals hid in their chateaus away from...
The authors mentioned, particularly Tariq Ali, are hardly the most unbiased authors around; he has consistently opposed everything the British...
They really should have given the Griffon-engined Spitfires a different name; they were very different aircraft. They did eventually give a new name...
Double Book Review I've been waiting for a cue to post the following! Its a piece that I wrote for the newsletter of a Model Shipwrights club to...
Annie Gareth's information and your anzacs.net link say everything that I was going to say, so I won't bother writing a long discussion. Suffice...
I'm afraid all the evidence is that von Richthofen was brought down by ground fire. I haven't got time right now to go into it, maybe tomorrow....
He was awarded the Pour Le Merite soon after this action. He survived the war, and lived until 1969
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