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20th Century

The Desert War – September 1940

9th September 2020 well_chuffed 2911 Comments

80 years ago this month things started hotting up. The Italians invaded Egypt and there was a fair bit of action at sea. On the 5th 6 Blenheims and 6 Hurricanes arrived in crates at [more…]

20th Century

The Lost Airman – Part One

7th September 2020 Going Postal 2703 Comments

Chelsfield Green, a strip of elevated, sloping grassland running alongside Warren Road from Chelsfield Station to Court Road on the fringe of the Village, has become a popular spot for a ration of daily exercise [more…]

20th Century

The Spitfire, of course, Part 4

5th August 2020 GrumpyAngler 2781 Comments

Musings on the development of the Miles M20 prototype Firstly, a reminder of where we started back in part one, I suggested in the first article in this series that the Spitfire was not an [more…]

20th Century

The Spitfire, of course, Part 3

1st July 2020 GrumpyAngler 2977 Comments

A look at the Miles M20, the “Emergency Fighter” Design and build us a cheap fighter, knock it up out of wood, shove in this night fighter engine, loads of fuel, plenty of ammo and [more…]

20th Century

The Spitfire, of course, Part 2

17th June 2020 GrumpyAngler 3921 Comments

A couple of years ago I wrote an article here concerning the design of the Spitfire and questioned its status as the best fighter of WWII. I mentioned in that article a follow up piece [more…]

Blown Periphery, Going Postal
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War Crimes Chapter 5 – Edge, This Sporting Life

26th April 2020 Blown Periphery 3312 Comments

War Crimes Chapter 5 The Regiment moved from Northern Ireland to Cyprus in 1991 and in the September, an extremely promising fly-half, Lance-Corporal Edge was selected to play for the 3rd Infantry Brigades rugby tour [more…]

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The Rendezvous

29th December 2019 Blown Periphery 2467 Comments

It had been dicey over the Big City. The flak had been murderous on the run-in and the radar predicted, master searchlights seemed to have had an unnerving accuracy that night. You could tell the [more…]

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Dear Son

25th November 2019 Going Postal 2994 Comments

Dear Son, As you start your career in the Royal Air Force I wanted to mark the occasion by writing to you personally – in the form of a hand written letter. Now, it may [more…]

20th Century

Address to Legion lunch 5th June 1994 at the Jameson Hotel

20th October 2019 Going Postal 2457 Comments

-1.- Thanks for introduction. Originally suggested review of OVERLORD. Broad coverage of the operation is not feasible in a talk of this sort so I won’t attempt it, except to quote something that was said at [more…]

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