OVERLORD'S BLOG

In the cockpit of the jet bomber only faint luminescence comes from the dials. Outside the cockpit it's pitch black. Every 90 seconds th...

Today is Remembrance Sunday in the UK, so as I normally do, I've selected something a bit more thought provoking than my usual fare. La...

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...