WWII

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 […]

During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches

The Home Guard were volunteers who defended the five thousand miles of Britain coastline in the event of an invasion by Germany. They were originally called the Local Defence Volunteers.  On Friday 10 May 1940, the Germans had started their attack on Belgium and the Netherlands using soldiers dropped by parachutes. British troops in mainland Europe were