Whether a crackpot idea or not, this article makes for interesting reading: Avian Anti-Submarine Warfare Proposals in Britain, 1915-18
Nick I haven't been able to find a comparable article for the Blenheim. However, I have scanned the cutaway for the Blenheim IV. In the second...
I'm afraid I cannot remember, Nana. PM me the name of the father and I can check which list he is on
According to the Pegasus Archive, those are troops dropping onto DZ-X. DZ-X was where the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Parachute regiment were...
Seems to be like the British Newspaper Library - you have to physically go there to read them or request a photocopy: Help | National Library of...
Spidge, I have received many similar other emails from other people, usually being just one of many recipients. When I've read them I have usually...
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And example of an advert from just before the war
And The Times have an article with links to their archives from 1944 and 1945 Times Archive Blog: Hollywood lies about WW2; do they matter?
Some great photos in the report Veteran British POWs visit Stalag Luft III to mark the 65th anniversary of the REAL Great Escape | Mail Online
WTF? Holocaust hurt Catholics more than Jews: Archbishop | The Courier-Mail A BRAZILIAN archbishop dropped a bombshell overnight when he said...
11 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit was at Calveley same as 17 (P) AFU. It was 17 that had the Masters. AAPC was the Anti-Aircraft Practice Camp - do...
Afraid not - I looked it up in the Beaufighter Crash Log. But I'm sure I've heard of teh incident before, maybe on rafcommands or TOCH
Ah, that's the problem with email chain-letters. Some dipstick will send one out, and next thing one knows it spreads like a virus, which it, infact,...
It is the Miles Master Miles Master - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Can you tell us which unit(s) your father-in-law was in?
As for "banning" Xmas because it may offend people of other religions, well that is plain ridiculous. I grew up in a family who made as much fuss...
David, if that had been anyone else posting those jokes, I'd have banned them straightaway for just plain terribleness!! But we allow a certain...
I zink that was funny :D
We have a comedy quiz show called QI hosted by Stephen Fry, with questions about preconceived ideas, and myths, and I remember this being one of the...
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