WARNING .... You may consider these photos too shocking or gruesome but they are a side of the war we don't usually get to see !...
Lilya Litvak’s first air victories were made during her second combat mission while flying with the (male) 296th IAP. This mission was flown on...
Thought I'd set a trivia question here !! ;) And theres a second part to the question ....... any idea of all the medals ?? :)
Wish I'd have remembered it was today !! :noidea: BBC SPORT | Other sport... | Horse Racing | Mon Mome seals shock National win
........ solved by soldier's grandson ! When "Aunt Pete" wrote to her soldier nephew in France in 1918, she had no idea what she was starting. Her...
Poor Mum ... didn't get to find out about Ernest - after living till she was 102 !! ..... (CNN) -- The U.S. military has identified frozen remains...
Does anybody know anything about these women ? I found this but it's in German ... I have to translate it !! :ohwell: David Irving's files on...
I haven't heard of some of these ...... :headhurt: 1941 1. 'Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy),' Jimmy Dorsey 2. 'Chattanooga Choo Choo,'...
Thought this may help somebody !! :) ::: rafchurchfenton.org.uk :::
In the aftermath of the Great War, Alan Cobham, a 24-year-old pilot from Streatham, was demobbed from the RAF with few vocational skills, but a...
A certain type of British compass is called Verner's pattern after its designer's name, Colonel William Willoughby Cole Verner. William W. C. Verner...
Remembering my Son today ....... never forgotten !
While I was looking for the grave of this brave pilot .... I came across another who was buried in the same grave ....... God Bless them both .... I...
William Oluf Grut was born in Denmark, but of Swedish nationality. He volunteered for the Malayan Volunteer Air Force as well as for the Royal...
Have you seen this site already Jerome ? Barbados Warrior - Flying Officer Owen Rowe, Royal Canadian Air Force...
Clive Robertson Caldwell was born in Lewisham, Sydney on the 28th of July, 1911. Pre war he trained for his civil pilot's licence whilst a member of...
In March of 1938, Churchill was broke, his share account with his stockbrokers was £18,000 in the red. He asked The Times to advertise his home...
In 1937, a local businessman, an ardent follower of Adolf Hitler, planted a 60 by 60 metre area of Larch trees in a forest near the town of Zernikow,...
One hour and fifty minutes after Britain declared war on Germany, a Bristol Blenheim fighter-bomber, piloted by Pilot Officer John Noel Isaac of 600...
Do you have these already ?? :) Aircraft accidents in Yorkshire. Aircraft crashes in Yorkshire Aircraft accidents on the North Yorkshire...
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