Imperial war museum photographic collection perhaps?

The Race for the Rhine Bridges 1940, 1944, 1945: By Alexander McKee

Covers the matter very well – naming

Troop Leader – Sergeant Robinson – Sherman Firefly

Lance Sergeant Billingham – 75mm Sherman – when Robinsons radio went out he took over Billinghams Sherman

Sergeant Pacey – 75mm Sherman

Lance Sergeant Knight – 75mm Sherman

As second in command Lord Carrington would cross immediately after Robinson’s Troop – also one light recce car carrying Lt A G C Jones, commanding 1 Troop, 14 Field Squadron Royal Engineers, whose job was to “delouse” the bridge after it had been captured.

Put “First tank across Nijmegen bridge” in to Google and it gives a good link to the book, where you can “read all about it” as they say.

Allan

Yes agree to your comments – note how Prost said that it was a suicide move by Heidfeld, wonder why he looked to his right before turning left to block Nick H, maybe he should have looked into his left mirror instead!!

The marshals seemed to take quite a time to get to the incident, and what was the liquid on the ground – battery acid or cooling water for the electric motor?

I hope they mention VE-Day and VJ-Day next year as it will be the 70th anniversary of the end of the war, so surely that might mean something, even if they are slow news days!!

Allan

The new Lancaster fighter – apparently

From the Introduction on page 7 of the planning application document

“The hangar will (be) used to undertake major servicing, restorations and repairs on a Lancaster Battle of Britain Memorial Flight fighter aircraft” even though the project is for a “Proposed Lancaster Bomber Hangar, Duxford, Cambridgeshire”

Allan

Is this site of any help http://www.echodelta.net/mbs/eng-welcome.php
The Allied Forces involved on the Western European front during the World War II fluently used a system of coordinates intended to help them to localize their targets on the theatre of operations : the “Modified British System”.

This system, used then in conjunction with cartographic data produced by the British, French and later American army geographical services, led from its principle to the definition of coordinates having a specific format, reproduced through the following example:

(LZ1) vT609931

Allan