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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 the middle of May 1942 thousands of Chinese refugees were forced to flee from the advancing forces of Imperial Japan. But help was at hand. A handful...
Having somehow managed to wrestle his B-17 ‘Ye Olde Pub’ out of its death-dive, pilot Charlie Brown had unknowingly levelled out above a Luftwaffe fighter base, home to Bf109 Ace Franz Stigler. The Germans watched in amazement as this seemingly easy prey limped overhead and Stigler’s recently re-armed fighter was soon in hot pursuit.
Upon catching the Americans,...
No two aircraft came to symbolise RAF Fighter Command’s epic struggle against the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain more than the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane. Flown into the heat of battle throughout that long summer of 1940, a small band of brave young RAF airmen took these iconic aircraft to the skies in a herculean effort to repel the might of Hitler’s air...
Under withering enemy fire, elements of No. 3 Commando, part of Brigadier Lord Lovat’s 1st Special Service Brigade, storm the eastern extremity of Sword Beach on the morning of D-Day 6 June 1944. In their midst, armed only with a set of bagpipes, Lovat’s personal piper Bill Millin plays the commandos ashore.
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- SWORD BEACH, 6 JUNE 1944 -
Amongst those storming ashore on Sword Beach on the morning of 6 June 1944 were the 177 men of the elite 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos commanded by Capitaine de Corvette Philippe Kieffer. As part of Lord Lovat’s 1st Special Service Brigade, the ‘Commando Kieffer’ had the distinction of being the first, and only, French...
- Assault on the Hindenburg Line -
The Battle of Cambrai wasn’t the first time the tank had been seen in action; these newly-invented British weapons had been used in small groups ever since their introduction during the Battle of the Somme a year earlier. In that time, lessons had been learned and significant developments heralded...
Formed in early 1941, long before events at Pearl Harbor, a small group of American fighter pilots volunteered to fight the mighty Japanese Air Force which was sweeping imperiously through Indo-China. Known as the American Volunteer Group – or just more simply as THE FLYING TIGERS – during their brief six-month period of combat, and with rarely more than 50 serviceable fighters...
Led by SS-Hauptsturmführer Michael Wittmann, a company of MkVI Tiger tanks from SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 heads towards the small Normandy town of Villers-Bocage, June 1944.
If Hitler had deployed his reserve Panzer divisions earlier the Germans might well have stymied the Allied advance off the Normandy beaches. But he dithered, still convinced that the long-expected...
As poppies bloom amidst the shattered ruins of Ypres, units of British cavalry advance towards an area of heavy fighting during the Second Battle of Ypres, spring 1915.
In this poignant piece Richard has selected a moment during the Second Battle of Ypres as a tribute to all those Allied soldiers who fought during the Great War. The city of Ypres,...
For nearly four years, the swastika had flown belligerently over the small town of Sainte Mere Eglise in Normandy. Suddenly, shortly after midnight on the night of 5/6th June 1944, parachutists from the 82nd Airborne Division began landing in and around the town.
By 04.30, after a tough fire fight, troopers from the 505th PIR had raised another flag over the town – the Stars...
