OVERLORD'S BLOG

Part one. The Coldstreamers then fell back from the position they'd reached to give hill 309 some safety distance because at 1500 a bo...

There's a famous quote by Bernard Montgomery that he wanted 1/3rd of the Churchill tanks armed with a six pounder gun. This may have had...

A couple of weekends ago my wife mentioned to me that a village called Holme was having a 1940's weekend. So we decided to take a trip d...

Sorry to turn this into another WOT related post, but again we need too. I must also stress this is just me thinking out loud for a few mom...

Last week I wrote about the 340th Bomb Group on Corsica after its capture during Operation Vesuvius. Well since then it has moved across to ...

In July 1943 Operation Vesuvius (remember that codename) liberated Corsica from German occupation. After its capture the US used it as an ai...

Last week I wrote about the battle of Galatas , and the actions of a MKVIB tank commander called Lieutenant Roy Farran, when we left him Lt ...

In late May 1941 the Germans started the invasion of Crete with mostly light forces. What followed was a vicious campaign with a lot of bitt...

This week we’ll be doing two parts to the article. The first bit is history, the rest is World of tanks related. Also on Friday I put up a N...