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Italian fleet surrender Reg saw and photographed the Italian fleet as it approached Malta to surrender, but...
Just then the Household Cavalry came up to us and after discussions with our Officers they set off up the...
Shot to pieces by a Panzer division Then it was up to St Valery sur Bresle, near Aumale, where our...
Back at Comiso we did some more testing and set out, fully loaded to fly to Bari where I heard I was...
A slightly lighter tale from this period is of my dad's mate, private Potts, who was regarded as the...
It so happened the Northamptonshire Regiment, with other regiments, were to put in a Christmas Eve attack...
Our driver, Charlie Bailey from Keighley, north Yorkshire, reported that we were running low on petrol....
Near the end of his service and his diaries, he had a chance meeting with W.A.A.F. Corporal Mary Pettit at...
Our job was to guard the front line in Siam, just waiting for things to happen, which they did, with the...
But let's get back to the 2nd phase of the armoured thrust by the combined force of BCR tanks and...
Unfortunately, he found one of the engines u/s. This meant that we had to clamber out of our aircraft, send...
Together with vehicles and guns we were told that we were hereby going to act as police as the French had...
To assist him, the Embarkation Officer would instruct an Officer from one of the waiting groups to call out...
I had done some army training at the Cambridge University Senior Training Corps but was not really...
This fuel pipeline would have been high on the German 'hit' list, be it underwater or crossing the...
When I took my annual school battlefields tour on a special visit to Dunkirk in 2000, Charlie kindly wrote...
Spotting the enemy I saw Johnny raise his head to look over the wee escarpment to find out where the enemy...
And I joined a Squadron there that was formed up mainly as a Heavy bomber unit because they found out that...
Rosie,theres a boat down there" I heard the cry.It was Lambert,pointing down towards the beach.We had...
Until the end of his life, he maintained that he could remember little to nothing about his time at...
This brought memories flooding back of my time as a prisoner of war in Japan and being forced to work as a...
We were based in Southampton harbour, where prior to D-Day we loaded up with seven tanks with blow-up...
Scattered here and there were several Jerry red-cross vans, but we were not to be deluded by this petty...
Our C.S.M poor Tommy was hors de combat, and my own officer had left us at the commencement of the action,...
Paddle steamer to Ostend: A fortnight after D-Day, we got on a paddle-steamer - the kind they had in...
Was this pre-invasion, bearing in mind that four towns in the North East of England had been shelled in...
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