Hi, I'm looking for information regarding the use and manufacturing of Callender-Hamilton Truss Bridges (C-H) during WW2. The C-H system was...
Hi Can anyone supply a GR for this bridge, a 1200+ ft bridge over the Sangro River? The assumption made by many is that it was either the old...
Hey, I begin to write a little story about the 249th Field Company Royal Engineers during D-Day and Battle of Normandy. "Until May 20st 1943,...
The temporary repairs to the bridge at Arnhem in 1947.
I stitched together multiple aerials to create two composites that show the east and west sides of the Caen Canal and River Orne running from the...
From the perspective of the Royal Engineers, who were right at head of the column during the breakout, this is the story of the Guards Armoured...
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I know I am causing trouble by pointing this out and asking about it but I'll do it anyway. Since I have been looking at aerial photographs of...
Cartoon map of 82nd assault on Nijmegen bridge as drawn by the 942nd Aviation Engineer Topo BN
There were newspapers dropped at Pegasus Bridge on D-Day to the glider riders and paratroopers of the 6th Airborne Division by an aircraft from...
I knew, when I was a kid, i played many times at the Bridge Canal Moll - Donck. I remember there was 2 headstones placed at the side from Mol, if...
MY FATHER, ERNEST ILLINGWORTH, 56 RECCE Like most people whose relative served in the war, my father Ernest Illingworth, 56 Recce never spoke...
Two gunboats headed up the Caen Canal from Ouistreham on the morning of the 6th June 1944 towards Pegasus Bridge. Back in March Stanley Taylor...
Our group visited the spot where Jack Robertson of the Royal Engineers built a Bailey Bridge over the River Sangro, October 1943
Jack Robertson, aged 94. Royal Engineers Helped build Bailey Bridge over River Sangro, October1943
Jack Robertson, Royal Engineer, aged 94 At the spot where he helped build a Bailey Bridge over the River Sangro October 1943
I am trying to find the first Royal Engineers from Sword beach to Pegasus Bridge. Richard Todd, actor and paratrooper, of 7th Parachute...
I am trying to solve a mystery that I thought people on here might be able to help with. This is a photo I took of a sketch my Grandmother has...
As I understand it, prior to the invasion there seems to have been some concern that the bridges over the Caen Canal and the Orne river (Pegaus...
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