Sunday, November 30, 2014

The British Battle of Stalingrad

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Stalingrad is a battle that needs no introduction, a place where the Red Army dug in and held the German tanks attacking the city.  However ...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Glorious Glosters

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If you mention the Gloucestershire Regiment, most people immediately think of the Battle of the Imjin River during the Korean War. This batt...
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Sunday, November 16, 2014

Defence Capabilities Centre Shrivenham

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About a year ago myself, Jingles and another EU Community Contributor, Ed Francis, were invited along to the Defence Capabilities Centre at ...
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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Horror at 25,000 feet (part 2)

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A few weeks ago I posted part one of a story about a B17 bomber . When we left the bomber was damaged, with two very seriously wounded crew ...
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Sunday, November 2, 2014

.45-Zero

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This article is in essence two stories, but one couldn't have happened without the other, and I'm sorry to say, one of them is not a...
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Sunday, October 26, 2014

The Armoured Soldier

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From the moment at Agincourt when a single soldier was killed by a gunpowder weapon, armour protection became more and more impractical. The...
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Sunday, October 19, 2014

Stug Ace

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Hugo Primozic was born in 1914 in Württemberg, Germany to a German mother and a Slovenian father. He enlisted with the German army in May 19...
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Sunday, October 12, 2014

The Ghost of Edward

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Nearly a year ago I wrote about Soviet robotic tanks . As with all nations with this sort of research they kept the program a secret. Well...
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Sunday, October 5, 2014

Horror at 25,000 feet (Part 1)

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People occasionally ask where I find the stories I put up. Some I've known about for years, others I stumble across as I'm reading...