OVERLORD'S BLOG

As I write this it's Easter Sunday, and I've just got back from a morning out, and as I'm stumped as to what to write about I fi...

The Royal Navy carrier HMS Illustrious had started the Second World War in the Mediterranean and in November 1940 she launched the Swordfish...

Last week's article about the Steam Tank , well yes, as some of you guessed, it was an April Fools joke. I hope it caught a few of you o...

 As I warned last week, this article is a day early due to me having to go to work tomorrow, and thus won't be able to post. One of th...

Note: Next weeks article will be out a day early, on the Saturday, as I have to go into work on Sunday, and so won't be able to post on ...

South America has one claim to fame, which I'm sure it'd rather not have. Before the Second World War it seems to have been the sour...

Part one. We left the two Italian naval officers as they lowered their modified human torpedo into the water off the port of Pola, to begi...

If in early 1918, you had been in Venice one evening you might have seen an odd sight. A lone man swimming around in the lagoons, towing a b...

There's a small village near Sedan in France that was the location of two days of intense combat in May 1940. The fighting was tank on t...

Last week we left the Zeebrugge raid in mid battle, as HMS Vindictive slammed into the mole and her troops got ready to charge. Part One. ...