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 ...
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Imagine the scene. Men and women are drugged, stripped naked and then dragged aboard aeroplanes, before being pushed out into the ocean and plunging to their deaths in the cold waters of the Atlantic. In an ...
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces, and was also the largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date. From July 1940 coastal shipping convoys ...
The Spanish Civil War was fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939. The war began after a pronunciamiento (declaration of opposition) by a group of generals under the leadership of José Sanjurjo ...
In the summer of 1947 a group of American designers visited England, Czechoslovakia and Poland to evaluate the progress of post-war reconstruction. The photos are from their visit in August of 1947 to view the progress in ...
They always came at night, swooping down low on their terrorised targets under the cover of darkness. They were called Night Witches, and they were highly effective at what they did, even though the wooden craft ...
The Maunsell Sea Forts were small fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom. They were named after their designer, Guy Maunsell. The forts ...
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 ...
We all make mistakes. Some are small blunders that are soon forgotten, while others are pretty awful – like the time you backed your car through the garage door before opening it. Then there are the ...
In the spring of 1955, as the Cold War intensified and the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union escalated at a shocking pace, America — as it had many times before — detonated an ...
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