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"You have a rendezvous with destiny!" – promised Major Gen William Lee to his men as the 101st Airborne Division was activated at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, 15 August 1942. And the first place they kept that rendezvous was Normandy…
At precisely 23.00 hours on the night of 5 June 1944, aircraft containing the men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute...
Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden: 1944 – 2019
By September 1944 there was growing Allied optimism in France; having broken out of Normandy their armies were now pushing steadily west. Yet as the enemy fell back the Allies’ supply line was becoming dangerously stretched. Newly-promoted Field Marshal Montgomery therefore argued that...
The revolutionary Me262 jet was unleashed just too late to change the course of the war – but it still created havoc amongst the bombers of the Eight Air Force as Robert Taylor’s poignant masterpiece depicts.
Had the Me262 been developed solely as an interceptor it would have blunted the ever increasing, deep-penetration American daylight bomber raids into Germany....
‘You have a rendezvous with destiny!’ – Major General William Lee had promised the men of the 101st Airborne Division. And in Normandy that rendezvous would be kept.
For the American amphibious landings on Utah and Omaha beaches to succeed, the bravery and skill of the elite US 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions would be called upon. Their task sounded simple...
Commemorating the men of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division
On 5 June 1944, at airfields across the breadth of southern England, elite paratroopers from three Allied Airborne Divisions prepared to spearhead the long- awaited invasion of northern France. Their task ahead sounded simple – to secure the flanks in preparation for the greatest amphibious...
By September 1944 there was growing Allied optimism in France; having broken out of Normandy their armies were now pushing steadily west. Yet as the enemy fell back the Allies’ supply line was becoming dangerously stretched. Newly-promoted Field Marshal Montgomery therefore argued that these limited resources be concentrated into a single push into the Netherlands, aiming to turn the...
A MOVING TRIBUTE TO THE SMALL BAND OF RAF FIGHTER PILOTS WHO WOULD SAVE EUROPE FROM HITLER’S TYRANNY.
June 1940: and the freedom of Britain lay in the hands of a small band of young RAF fighter pilots. Facing them across the Channel, the all-conquering Luftwaffe stood in eager anticipation of an easy victory, one that would allow were Hitler’s mighty...
‘You have a rendezvous with destiny!’ – Major General William Lee had promised the men of the 101st Airborne Division. And in Normandy that rendezvous would be kept.
For the American amphibious landings on Utah and Omaha beaches to succeed, the bravery and skill of the elite US 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions would be called upon. Their task sounded...
PAYING TRIBUTE TO A GREAT AMERICAN HERO
Lieutenant Colonel
JAMES ‘MAGGIE’ MEGELLAS
THE MOST DECORATED OFFICER IN THE HISTORY OF THE US 82nd AIRBORNE DIVISION
Snow was falling and it was bitterly cold as First Lieutenant James ‘Maggie’ Megellas brought his weary...
June 6, 1944, above occupied France. With steely eyes, the Band of Brothers paratroopers of the 101st Airborne lunge toward their rendezvous with destiny. Many carry a letter from Gen. Eisenhower that they keep tucked under helmets, in jump boots, and in bulging jacket pockets, close to heart.
It read: “Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!...
