Lifted from the Book-buying problem thread as it triggered some chat on a subject that always rumbles under here, but we maybe haven't looked at...
This spectacular photograph purports to show an M3 Stuart Tank being destroyed by Japanese troops using Molotov Cocktails during their advance...
This thread follows on from the thread -Should this Airmen have his bar to his AFC listed on his memorial. Should this airman have his bar to the...
August 1940 the "Tank Hunting Platoons" of both the 1st & 2nd Battalions of the Grenadier Guards were attached to Auxiliary Units at Coleshill as...
Hello, I recently received my great-grandfather's service records. He fought in Burma but spent much of his time before in India awaiting the...
Hello to all, wherever you are. I have two accounts of this most important of Holocaust 'incidents'. One is by a man who took part in the...
The following has been extracted from WO 167/566 5 Heavy Battery, 1 Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery. It will be some time now before I can get to...
Hallo all Watching an old (1988) film lat night, The Beast, I was struck by one of the characters (the tank commander) who revealed that as an 8...
Came across these in a Picture Post from April 1940 and thought I might start a series of bad advice we've come across. (if this is a more general...
I don't post on here very often, but I'd like to share this with you. I believe I've come across two adjacent sets of roadblock sockets. How I...
[IMG] [IMG] Ironically, although Peipers tactical knowhow had kept him alive through 5 years of combat in France, Italy and Russia, he made...
In August 1943, Montgomery wrote to the Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff about tanks: “We are badly behind the Germans in this respect,...
Hello. My father, Stanley Roy Eldridge, now deceased, was a South African POW in Italy during WWII. I am trying to find out more about his POW...
Possibly take this to be part two of my poll on whether Hitler would have invaded Britain or was he bluffing. In your mind (a personal view),...
Sadly, a hypothetical question: If I bought the Churchill Crocodile mentioned here, located a fuel trailer, restored it like the one at...
Just yesterday, I was reading about how the british were preparing their island for an invasion. Some of the defenses they used were rather...
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