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COMMEMORATING THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918
In the early hours of Thursday 21 March 1918 a thunderous barrage shook the Western Front. In the space of just five hours a million artillery shells – over 3000 every minute – detonated amidst the lines held by an exhausted and overstretched British Fifth Army which, by the Spring of 1918, had found itself in...
14 January 1945; and the war was not going well for Germany. The noose was tightening as American, British and Canadian armies, having broken out from their Normandy landings seven months earlier, stood on the banks of the Rhine. In the east vast numbers of Russians were driving relentlessly towards Berlin. On their bomb-cratered airfields the Luftwaffe prepared for the final onslaught...
THE SECOND IN A SERIES COMMEMORATING THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918
On Friday 15 September 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, a new, unnerving sound was heard on the Western Front; a deep mechanical rumble accompanied by the ominous clanking of metal. Approaching their trench positions on the front line between the villages of Flers and Courcelette, German soldiers could see...
On 23 December 1941, just days after their infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese captured Wake Island, a small, but strategic coral atoll in the western Pacific.
The small garrison of mainly US Marines had already repulsed one landing but, on 23 December, the Japanese succeeded. Wake fell, as had Guam before it and now, across the breadth of the south-west Pacific, islands...
Released on the 100th Anniversary of the RAF as a tribute to all those who flew the Spitfire!
When the Luftwaffe unleashed the Fw190, the unsuspecting Spitfire pilots of RAF Fighter Command were at serious disadvantage – but it wasn’t for long!
Under clear skies, a light breeze from the south-west blew across the...
One of the first units to re-equip with new Mk.IX Spitfire was 64 Squadron, and this classic masterwork depicts the day when the RAF hit back against the Fw190s of the Luftwaffe. It was 30 July 1942 over Boulogne when 64 Squadron, acting as top cover, spotted a group of a dozen Fw190s about 2,000ft below them. Bouncing the enemy from above, Don Kingaby, one of the RAF’s most iconic...
When Willi Messerschmitt’s all-metal Bf109 made its maiden flight in 1935, bi-plane fighters were consigned to history – monoplanes were the future.
Honed by the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War and put into practice in the conquest of Poland, the Messerschmitt Bf109 was one of the most advanced fighters of its time; well-armed with an all-metal monocoque...
COMMEMORATING THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914 – 1918
The Third Battle of Ypres began on 31 July 1917 and was planned as a great Allied offensive that would drive the enemy back to the North Sea, allowing the capture of German-occupied ports in Belgium from where U-Boats were taking their toll of both the Royal Navy and merchant shipping. It was hoped the offensive would...
