June 26, 2014 at 12:54 pm
FEATURING:
BOMBER COMMAND VS THE FLYING BOMB
After it was identified that the caves at Saint-Leu-d’Esserent in France were a V-1 storage depot, they became heavily attacked during Bomber Command’s campaign against the V-weapons.
MAPPING THE D-DAY WRECKS
Chris Howlett describes some of the wrecks discovered during an operation that was undertaken to map the seabed around the Normandy landing beaches using multi-beam sonar.
KILLED AT FROMELLES
Australia’s Assistant Minister for Defence, The Hon Stuart Robert MP, has announced that a further twenty previously unidentified soldiers who were killed at Fromelles in 1916 have been identified.
THE DAY WAR BROKE OUT: 4 AUGUST 1914
Almost 100 years ago, the ultimatum issued by the British government was rejected by Germany. Consequently, a state of war existed been the two nations. But how was the news seen by the
British people?
WINSTON CHURCHILL’S D-DAY VISIT
On Monday, 12 June 1944, six days after the first Allied troops had stepped ashore on the Normandy coast, the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, decided to follow in their footsteps.
DIGGING FOR VICTORY
We Explore London’s deep-level Second World War air raid shelters.
AND MUCH MORE!
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