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The Dieppe Raid: A Mission That Went Badly Wrong

At just before 5am on the 19th August 1942 the Allied forces launched a sea bound attack on the German occupied port of Dieppe on the north coast of France. ‘Operation Rutter’ as it was known ...

Remembering D-Day 68 Years Ago

June 6th, the 68th anniversary of the successful 1944 Allied invasion of France. Several operations were combined to carry out the largest amphibious invasion in history – over 160,000 troops landed on June 6th, assisted by ...

Vintage Typewriter Erotica 1920s

Secretaries have fed the imagination since the first one entered the office in the 1880s. Secretaries appeared in different stages of nudity in pictures ranging from innocent leg-shots to total nudes and beyond. The images below ...

Before And After D-Day – 1944

The colour pictures below taken by photographer Frank Scherschel show in vivid colour the preparation for the D-Day invasion in June 1944, and the events in France following the landings on June 6th. ...