Happy 90th Birthday, WWII Vet John Moore! (One of America’s Youngest Pilots in WWII)
WWII veteran John Moore, one of the youngest Navy pilots the country had during the Second World War, recently turned 90 Thursday (March 27) and…
Delving Deep into the Story of Angelo Klonis, a WWII Icon
Renowned WWII photojournalist W. Eugene Smith once snapped a photo of a WWII soldier that for many had become the iconic image of WWII –…
Sherman M4A4 Restoration Part 6: Putting all the blocks together = one multibank
Having finished the blocks, I concentrated on the centre casing which joins everything together. Again, having two sets of everything helped but both sets of…
Home Guard of Beaulieu Drew Maps to Prepare Defense
The BBC show Dad’s Army was a comedy about an aged Home Guard which was true in spirit, but often seemed to have something missing…
“Great Escape” Dick Churchill – “My Name May Have Saved My Life!”
Dick Churchill were one of the “Great Escape” tunnel’s diggers where only 3 POWs made it to freedom while the remainder 73 were recaptured and…
Sherman M4A4 Restoration Part 5: Rebuild of the Blocks
Starting this had made me realise how many gaps there are in my photo record. All the pictures are on film and it would be…
CHURCHILL’S SECRET INVASION – Britain’s First Large-Scale Combined Operations Offensive 1942 – Review by Mark Barnes
This book is one of a number that has a title prefixed with the name of Winston Churchill. To my mind they offer an implication…
Remembering British Soldier Hugh Lunghi, Last Surviving Participant of WWII’s “Big Three” Meetings (1920-2014)
British soldier Hugh Lunghi who acted as British PM Winston Churchill’s interpreter during his dealing with Josef Stalin and was thought to be the very…
Sherman M4A4 Restoration Part 4: The Engines Continued
Now all the individual engines can be removed. This is best achieved by rotating the assembly to allow a vertical lift for each block. No…
Sherman M4A4 Restoration Part 3: The engine continued
The aforementioned fan was the only casualty in the recovery as a blade broke off as we unloaded in my yard. Due to the size…
Flora Sandes: The Only Female in WWI and WWII Frontlines
Daughter of the Suffolk rector, Flora Sandes received the upbringing any middle-class girl would have had in her time – hope for a good husband…
Jumpers ready for D-Day parachute jump on 70th anniversary commemoration
June 2014 will mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day landings, the start of the end of the Nazi occupation over Europe. It will be the…