The 24th March 2019 was the 75th anniversary of The Great Escape, a reminder of a different age when men made terrible sacrifices and displayed incredible bravery to gift us seventy years of relative freedom [more…]
The 1813 Battle of Leipzig is known in Germany as the Battle of the Nations (Völkerschlacht). It was greatest fight in European history prior to World War I, with nearly 400,000 Russian, Prussian, Austrian and [more…]
Born in 1894, Douglas Rudolf Pobjoy later studied engineering locally at Bristol University. Pobjoy abandoned his studies when the first World War broke out by enlisting in the Army Service Corps and was sent to [more…]
When FDR was Governor of New York State he needed some one to run his Welfare Program. That person was Harry and from that point they were friends and colleagues for the rest of their [more…]
One of the more noticeable phenomena of WW2 was the number of conferences between the Allied Leaders. Without Facebook and Facetime they just had to meet physically; they did have scrambled telephone calls though, unbeknown [more…]
“For every foreign-born soldier who dies, no German mother weeps” – Gottlob Berger The Waffen SS was the military wing of the Nazi party, although it is important to note that membership of the NSDAP [more…]
There were a multitude of Crossbow V-Weapon sites throughout northern France and most were attacked from the air and later overrun by the advancing Allied armies. The light bombers of the Second Tactical Air Force [more…]
The Allies could finally claim air superiority over France and Belgium by 1943. It had been a hard-fought battle that started after the Battle of Britain in the Circus and Rhubarb sweeps over France, the [more…]
The Venona Project was launched by the US Army Signal Intelligence Service in February 1943. The Russians had sent thousands and thousands of coded and enciphered messages over commercial telegraph services. The US Army decided [more…]
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