OVERLORD'S BLOG

HMAS Yarra was the second ship to bear that name. She was a Grimsby Class sloop, a tiny ship was lightly armed with only three four inch gun...

Part one. Picture note: I ran into a bit of a problem hunting for pictures today... the Us didn't name the weapons, but the British di...

Due to real life circumstances, and this article in its original form being quite a bit longer than anticipated, I'll be splitting it in...

I've not done a technical article for a while, and not so long ago I found a document that went into flamethrowers in excruciating detai...

Esther, Ruth and Jennifer is a book by Jack Davies, it's about a hijack and blackmail attempt aimed at British North Sea oil production...

Note: The account of the action on the night of the 22nd-23rd January, which is mentioned later in the article, comes from multiple sources...

On the 5th of July 1944 the 7146 ton Liberty Ship number 243756 left Hog Island in the US and began the long journey to the UK. Her first po...

With a title like that you're likely expecting a story of a soldier facing off against a large number of enemy tanks, and you'd be r...

Earlier in the year I bumped into and got chatting to Richard Smith, the director at the Bovington Tank Museum. During the conversation he s...

"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." is an old saying that I keep on thinking about when reading about events...