We also didn't have a TV, for reasons that would take too long to tell, until just before I went to Uni. It certainly contributed to my sense of...
Thanks folks! What proportion are relevant to WW2 is another matter.... But, I've never bothered going on Facebook because I am very unlikely to...
Colin Beaumont-Edmonds - Telegraph Colin Beaumont-Edmonds, who has died aged 85, was blinded in action in 1943 and won a Military Cross. He...
He ends up with a totally random listing of aircraft, and titling his website after this aspect of his research makes it seem weird. Which is a...
I thought you might enjoy this list: Seditious Children’s Books You Were an Accident You Are Different and That's Bad The Boy Who Died...
They got their own back as well. Tennessee and West Virginia, both sunk at Pearl Harbour but raised and repaired, took part in the last ever...
Quite apart from his determination and courage, I wonder how many young men we now have with his kind of practical skills as a mechanic and a seaman.
If you put as much into it as into WW2 history you definitely deserved it! Any luck with a job yet?
Brigadier Hugo Ironside, tank commander and Colditz inmate, has died aged 90. Brigadier Hugo Ironside - Telegraph
It seems from the link that there is controversy as to whether his wife was with him when he died. Arthur Scarf had never been in combat before...
So what is the first photo? Has she actually been launched? Interesting that they point out that she can hear a ship leaving New York, rather...
Its easy to judge when you know the end of the story. Of course, as de Gaulle is quoted as saying: "Marshal Petain died in 1925". In other words,...
I meant the Tupolev SB, also known by its service designation of ANT-40, roughly equivalent to the RAF's Blenheim Tupolev SB - Wikipedia, the free...
I wonder what the Vulcan would have been like if Roy Chadwick had lived?
It would be tempting to make a start...but £10000 in £10 notes, thats 1000 notes; even if they were only cut into four peices each that would be a...
It may be about lack of opportunity. Twin-engine bombers didn't play huge part in the Soviet Air Force. They had Il-4s (also known as DB-3s) and...
Just take a second look at this paragraph: Scary or what! So "the people that matter" [in the mind of this European bureaucrat, i.e the anonymous...
My first port of call for WW2 aces is Aces of WWII Going to Hungarian page, Heppes is listed but with no further information. But where...
This is not really WW2, but I couldn't resist posting it. This lady was clearly a hell of a character! Driving at 95! From the Daily Telegraph...
This appeared in the Daily Telegraph. This veteran is clearly determined to stay independent. Quite an ordeal for anyone to stay out on an English...
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