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June 6, 1944 - Le Grand Chemin
Fresh from their baptism of fire, the “Screaming Eagles” of Easy, Dog, and Fox companies, 506th PIR, regroup and rearm, having silenced the guns of Brécourt Manor. Now, their reinforcements arrive. From Utah Beach, come the M4 Sherman tanks of the 70th Tank Battalion. From scattered drop zones across Normandy, come other paratroopers...
A veteran remembers those who were cut down in the vicious battle to capture ‘Bloody Omaha’, the beach whose blood-stained sands would claim the lives of so many young American soldiers. Paying a particularly heavy price were the first to land, the men of the U.S. 29th Infantry Division – the ‘Blue and Gray’...
The presence of those who fell appear through the dimming light of day, visible to none save the lone British veteran who gazes across Gold Beach to where the men of his East Yorkshire Regiment landed alongside the men of 47 (Royal Marine) Commando.
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The sound of snarling Allison engines rings through the gorge over the Li River as shark-mouthed P-40s of the legendary American Volunteer Group, the ‘Flying Tigers’, return to their base in Kweilin, China, 1942.
By mid-May of 1942, the forces of Imperial Japan had completed a string of cruel conquests and began a large armored advance along the Burma Road toward...
March 24, 1942…The pre-dawn silence was broken at a small grass airstrip in China, lit only by the dim headlights of an old military truck. A small group of shark-mouthed American P-40s bearing the Chinese national insignia roared off into the darkness. Their mission: destroy the enemy squadrons massed at the Southeast Asian headquarters of the Japanese Air Force in Chiang Mai,...
The presence of those who fell appear through the dimming light of day, visible to none save the lone British veteran who gazes across Gold Beach to where the men of his East Yorkshire Regiment landed alongside the men of 47 (Royal Marine) Commando.
Part of a historic pair of prints commemorating the 80th...
The presence of those who fell appear through the dimming light of day, visible to none save the lone British veteran who gazes across Gold Beach to where the men of his East Yorkshire Regiment landed alongside the men of 47 (Royal Marine) Commando.
Part of a historic pair of prints commemorating the 80th...
Throughout the long hot summer of 1940 the destiny of the British Isles, indeed the future of Europe, laid in the hands of a small band of young RAF fighter pilots. Against them stood the vast aerial fleets of an all powerful Luftwaffe, gloating and confident from its victories in Poland, France and the Low Countries. Lying in wait across the Channel, anticipating an easy victory by its air...
Lt. Joseph A. Peterburs, a pilot with the 55th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group climbs away from Kings Cliffe in his P-51D ‘Josephine’.
The fighter pilots of the Eighth Air Force came from all parts of the United States. They’d crossed three thousand miles of ocean to find themselves in Britain where the weather was often wet but at least the language...
The bands played, the streamers flew and the crowds cheered; their loud ‘hurrahs’ filling the air as the world’s largest liner slipped gently away from the White Star berth at Southampton. The fateful maiden voyage to New York had begun. In this magical moment the Titanic presented a majestic sight as she sailed into the Solent accompanied by a flotilla of all shapes and...
