He maybe a coward by name but certainly not by nature. Charles Joseph Coward was a British soldier who smuggled himself into a WW2 Nazi concentration camp! Born in 1905 Charles joined the Army in 1924 and was serving as Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Major with the Royal Artillery in France 1940 when he took part […]
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That was the sentence delivered to a young military engineer of the REME, Major Douglas Liddermore, by the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. The British fear of the Tiger tank was a very real thing, Churchill knew that if he could get one then the information his experts could learn from it will help defeat
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They named their tank ‘Fray Bentos’ after the famous canned meat. They were the 9 crew members who were trapped inside their tank in the middle of no mans land in August 1917. Fray Bentos F41 was a male Mark IV tank numbered 2329. They endured 3 days and 2 nights being attacked with artillery,
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