OVERLORD'S BLOG

Gibraltar was one of the more strategically important bases for the Royal Navy in the Second World War. With it, the Mediterranean was compl...

The Northrop F-89 Scorpion was an odd aircraft. It was designed to combat the Russian bombers that were the principal risk to the US in the ...

Blogger's new software continues to perform exquisitely. Fun work around I need to do to centre the picture captions. 1: Attempt to just...

Note: Blogger's new and "improved" software is still being pants on head special. Hence the layout issues.  Submarines are gre...

Update: Good news everybody! Blogger have updated their software for creating posts... and they've competently banjaxed it, made it vast...

In 1959 the CIA decided that it needed a new means of spying on its opponents. The only practical answer at the time was a plane. Thus, the ...

On the 2nd of March 1944, late in the evening, about 2200 in a snowstorm, a small German convoy consisting of the merchants Thor, Hermann Fr...

On the afternoon of the 9th February 1944 a flight of US Spitfires from 4th Fighter Squadron were performing a sweep off the coast of southe...

A few weeks ago, my friend Adam Pawley told me a story about a German First World War raider, that upon closer inspection showed promise as ...