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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...
June 6, 1944 - Le Grand Chemin
Fresh from their baptism of fire, the “Screaming Eagles” of Easy, Dog, and Fox companies, 506th PIR, regroup and rearm, having silenced the guns of Brécourt Manor. Now, their reinforcements arrive. From Utah Beach, come the M4 Sherman tanks of the 70th Tank Battalion. From scattered drop zones across Normandy, come other paratroopers...
- OPERATION JERICHO -
A stunning Limited Edition print commemorating the 80th anniversary of Operation Jericho : 1944 – 2024
The message was as dismal as the winter weather; behind the sombre walls of Amiens prison several hundred members of the...
- OPERATION JERICHO -
In one of the most daring low-level operations of the war, Flight Lieutenant Tom McPhee keeps tight formation behind Squadron Leader Ian McRitchie as their two Mosquito FB Mk.VIs of 464 Squadron RAAF...
''If you had the height, you controlled the battle. If you came out of the sun, the enemy could not see you. If you held your fire until you were very close, you seldom missed’'
These three basic rules contributed to the prowess in aerial combat of some of the most successful fighter pilots in history and seldom were they more valuable than...
What became known as 'The Battle of the Bulge' was Hitler's last attempt to win back the initiative in the west by smashing towards the Allied lines by the unlikely and difficult route through the Ardennes. Five armoured spearheads, one of which was commanded by the highly regarded Obersturmbannfuhrer Joachim ‘Jochen’ Peiper, were to penetrate these steep and wooded valleys under...
A veteran remembers those who were cut down in the vicious battle to capture ‘Bloody Omaha’, the beach whose blood-stained sands would claim the lives of so many young American soldiers. Paying a particularly heavy price were the first to land, the men of the U.S. 29th Infantry Division – the ‘Blue and Gray’...
The presence of those who fell appear through the dimming light of day, visible to none save the lone British veteran who gazes across Gold Beach to where the men of his East Yorkshire Regiment landed alongside the men of 47 (Royal Marine) Commando.
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During the winter of 1944 - '45, the skies over Germany would routinely be studded with literally thousands of allied aircraft on "RAMROD" missions, a term used by the USAAF for long-range strategic bomber strikes with fighter escorts, flown from their bases in England.
Shown here is famed triple ace Clarence E. "Bud" Anderson, flying his P-51D Mustang "Old...
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 mid-May of 1942, the forces of Imperial Japan had completed a string of cruel conquests and began a large armored advance along the Burma Road toward...
