Half-way down the Times article is this link, where apparently the photos are posted. www.landesarchiv-bw.de/stas I opened this, but its a...
This is a very interesting article from the Daily Telegraph about ordinary people's feelings and experiences on the first day of the war: Second...
Has 3rd September always [i.e since WW2] been Merchant Navy Day? I'm afraid its not well publicised if it is.
"Submarine Gunner" is definitely an extinct trade now, and with this gentleman's death there cannot be many left who ever practiced it. Captain...
Not a lot changes; even today there are regular news articles about the NHS or Local Governments sending letters to people who have died. In this...
Eric Lake had an interesting career and a lucky escape in the war. Obviously he loved flying; despite training as a Flight Engineer, he stayed in the...
Very interesting, thanks. But the picture labelled "Russian tank at Poteau, Belgium", is surely some kind of Self-Propelled Gun rather than a...
They are saying that Honiak's death was August 31st, which would make him the first victim. It seems academic when you see the photos of the...
A very brave man and a dedicated batman. Perhaps unfortunately, the standards for awarding a VC have been progressively raised over the years.
Jerome RAF Commands 1939 - 1945 [rafcommands.com] has the names of RAF POWS of WW2. I think probably this is just those in German hands, not...
I'd take the Daily Mail with a pinch of salt, but if half of it is true then I don't see how Calley could claim to be protecting his troops. And...
Thanks for this; its great that he wrote down his memories. There must be thousands of such stories that are lost for ever.
Just in case anyone misunderstands, this means the most heavily-armed ship up to that time! But we might have had to refer to these ships not as...
Tragically, both men had served virtually right through the war and were killed by a random shell. They must have saved the lives of hundreds if...
This has been widely reported in the UK. What no report seems to say is, what happened to the wreckage of the Whitley that they were trying to...
Wing Commander Les Harland - Telegraph Wing Commander Les Harland, who has died aged 89, had an unusually varied RAF career, which included...
This poem is quoted in the Telegraph today, so it is certainly getting around. It is good to see soldiers carrying on the tradition of writing...
So are any of these five men left alive? I'm pretty sure I remember reading Kingsmill's obituary not long ago.
I suspect Harris had made up his mind long before the raid took place; as I said, he had an axe to grind. And Leo McKinstry has to have an "angle"...
Geoff Thanks; I obviously was being thick; I think I looked everywhere except under "community"! Our holiday in Spain was great; the weather was...
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