WW1, WW2, History of Aviation, Army & Naval Warfare
Neil Faulkner rails against the neglect of historic battlefields and a warped view of British history. Visit the battlefield of Evesham and you will find most of it private property with minimal public access. What happened here? As Steve Roberts explains this issue (see War Zone), it was where Simon de Montfort perished with many [...]
Photography gallery from this year’s War and Peace Show
Military Times remembers the Battle of Turnham Green, the strategically significant English Civil War confrontation, which celebrates its anniversary this weekend. 11th November is traditionally associated with the Day of Armistice 1918, when the Great War finally ended, after five gruelling years of turmoil and suffering. When considering the huge-death toll and global devastation of [...]
A series of German World War II propaganda leaflets have come light, after being put on sale by private collectors. It is likely that the leaflets, intended for British servicemen, were masterminded by the Nazi head of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. They were dropped into occupied France following D-Day, June 1944. According to Richard Westwood-Brookes, of [...]
The World War II airbase, RAF Lossiemouth, in Scotland, is facing closure in light of the recent Strategic Defence Security Review. Built between 1938 and 1939, No 15 Flying Training School began operating from Lossiemouth in April 1939. Originally housing Oxfords and Harvards, these made way to accommodate Bomber Command in April 1940, when No [...]
Michael Seifert, a Nazi war criminal known as the ‘Beast of Bolzano’, has died aged 86 in an Italian hospital, where he was serving a life sentence. The Ukrainian-born Seifert became a Nazi prison guard following German occupation. After the war ended, he moved to Canada in 1951 to start anew, leaving his past behind. [...]
Harriers are the subject of our latest image gallery by artist Mark Bromley. Originally commissioned for the Heritage collection at BAE Systems, these paintings are a tribute to the world famous jump jet.
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100 years of Naval Aviation: The Fleet Air Arm Museum: Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) … [Read More...]
Roving reporter Keith Robinson has discovered a splendid little museum hidden away in … [Read More...]
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The Rule of Empires: those who built them, those who endured them, and why they … [Read More...]
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