ARTICLE: The Battle of Moerbrugge – Part 2
Moerbrugge: Prelude to Battle. On September 5th 1944, the 1st Polish Armoured Division occupied St Omer. The refreshed 4th Canadian Armoured Division resumed its advance…
ARTICLE: The First in a Series of WWII Medal Identification by Scott Addington
Campaign Awards for the Second World War (1939-1945) General service within the British and Commonwealth armed forces during the Second World War was rewarded by…
ARTICLE: The Battle of Moerbrugge (September 8th -11th, 1944)
The Belgian town of Moerbrugge was liberated by the Canadian 1st Army on September 10th 1944, after a vicious two-day long battle. The action was…
4 Paratrooper Collectables
SO FAR IN our news we’ve resisted writing about D-Day Airborne relics largely as they seem to be well covered everywhere else. We’ve all seen…
The sad story of the Italian armistice of 8 September 1943
By Romeo Pavoni for War History Online There are some events in the history of every nation that represent a turning point, for the Italian…
5 Picks of D-Day Paratrooper Militaria
Warstuff.com SO FAR IN our news we’ve resisted writing about D-Day Airborne relics largely as they seem to be well covered everywhere else. We’ve…
ARTICLE: The Battle of Moerbrugge – September 10th and 11th: The Canadian Triumph and the Anti-Climax:
September 10th and 11th: The Canadian Triumph and the Anti-Climax: The Bailey bridge was completed by the 8th Field Squadron, RCE, by 0600hrs on the…
Top 5 Picks of WW2 Collectable Deactivated Sniper Rifles
THE SNIPER HAS lurked in the shadows of war for over two centuries evolving from paid assassin to the most highly trained of infantryman during…
Exclusive from excerpt author Alex Kershaw – THE FEW AT THE HEIGHT OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
Their Finest Hour “You catch him right smack in the middle of your sights and give him a complete burst. The Brownings go to work,…
Douglas Haig – butcher or hero? By Rupert Colley
Douglas Haig, Britain’s First World War commander-in-chief from December 1915 to the end of the war, is remembered as the archetypal ‘donkey’ leading ‘lions’ to…
6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment and the Locust by Peter Brown
Following their use of Tetrarch tanks landed by glider in support of the D Day landings, 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment RAC’s next action was…
ARTICLE: The Tiger Tank Story by Noel Feeney
(Tiger I) “And the lord was with Judah And he drove out the The inhabitants of the mountain But he could not drive out The…