Lord Tweedsmuir, son of John Buchan, was a fighter pilot, and it would seem a bit of a playboy as well!...
I just found this thread on theaerodrome.com. Apparently Chaz Bowyer died on 24th June. He was the author of many books on aviation history and WW2...
BBC journalist Sir Charles Wheeler was a Royal Marines Captain in WW2. Of course he was better known for his later career, but with the...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2074450/Shackleton-Cold-War-air-crews-heroes-honoured-with-memorial.html Not quite WW2, but a memorial has been...
This appeared in the Daily Telegraph: World War II US D-Day invasion tank unearthed in France - Telegraph The article also mentions a WW1 tank...
This WW2 thread appeared on the equivalent of Barracks on the Great War Forum Board Message (clicking on the link seems to bring you to the...
I was at the RAF Museum (Hendon) for the Cross&Cockade AGM yesterday. Being a WW1 orientated-day, I mainly concentrated on the WW1 exhibits, but I...
Does anything strike you as unusual about this CH53 ? Start with the pictures of the whole machine. If you were to see it from a distance it would...
Definitely a man you would want to be on your side! Sergeant Dougie Wright - Telegraph
I had to check the date, to make sure it isn't April 1st. Ok, the young lady is pretty enough, but just who would you buy the bikini for? I don't...
Have we had a thread on the Bevin Boys? A vital part of the British war effort. If we had been young men in the 1940's, then however much we may...
He weathered life's storms with courage and a smile - Obituaries - smh.com.au He weathered life's storms with courage and a smile - Obituaries -...
Lord Pym - Telegraph Francis Pym's WW2 record is worth reading. A man who might have become Prime Minister if he had been ten years older, but...
Ivan Kozhedub; Alexander Pokryshkin As a spin-off from my thread on Erich Hartmann, Ace of Aces of all nations and all time, I have looked at the...
I’m currently reading “The Blond Knight of Germany” the biography of Erich Hartmann, and so the air war on the Eastern Front and the achievements of...
Did any of you in the UK see the Channel 4 documentary on the Kamikaze missions this evening? If not, worth finding it on any of the playback...
David Stogdon is best known as a lifeboat designer and inspector, and for pioneering use of the RIB. In WW2 he served in Destroyers with the RNVR and...
We got onto the subject of Theodore Roosevelt in the flying-boat thread. He is definitely worth a thread to himself, and not to be lost in another...
Someone sent me this YouTune footage of an ME109G and ME262 at an air display. YouTube - Me-109-G10 and Me-262 seen on airshow Must be one of...
I didn't think the obituary of a tax lawyer would be very interesting, but I checked it out and apparently he was a submarine commander in WW2....
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