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15 June 1942. Salisbury Plain, England. The Baron II’s trials were complete and a group of Officers, Other Ranks and civilians were...

12 June 1942. Rabaul. The casualties taken to capture of Rabaul had made the South Seas Detachment incapable of any further meaningful...

5 June 1942. Tripoli, Libya Once the RAF’s Desert Air Force had cleared the North African coast of Italians and Germans, a degree of...

1 June 1942. Damascus, Syria. General Henri Dentz, High Commissioner of Levant and GOC-in-C Levant Forces of the Vichy Regime watched...

I would want to see the outcome if he did.

17th October 1914, Dillbeek The Prince of Wales was exhausted, he had been run ragged as the Battalion was going to go back into the...

15th October 1914, South Pacific. The South Sea Squadron had finished coaling and making the minor repairs necessitated by the recent...

With an HE round coupled with the very low launch signal the Piat would probably be one of the more practicable short range bunker...

14th October 1914, Hawaii He was angry an angry young man, his father had been a noble and an important official in the household of...

13th October 1914, Tokyo. The signal was received at the Headquarters of the Imperial Japanese Navy, it had travelled a circuitous...

I was talking specifically about the Battle of Passchendaele and comparing the Attacks of Gough and Plumer. As a microcosm of two...

On the first point your right and this is why the Germans were more worried about Bite and Hold rather than the Breakthrough attacks...

Bite and hold tactics weren't the answer on the western front, they were actually worse than break through attempts. There were a few...

This, there are only a few ways we see fewer Vickers guns made. The first is the earlier introduction of Mortars and proper tactics for...

Why? If you want to defend a fixed position or supress an enemy trench from a covering position for more than a few minutes during an...