FIRST WORLD WAR DIARY JUNE 1917 WORLD MAP
JUNE 1917. The Western Front is rocked by a series of massive...
‘WATCH OUT! WATCH OUT! MISSILE, MISSILE…!’
During operations in the South Atlantic to re-take the Falkland...
Hunt for £4.5bn of Gold on British War Wrecks
700 Vessels Potentially Investigable – Significant Ships of...
Royal Marines Battle to Keep HMS Ocean
Valued Helicopter Carrier to be Decommissioned and Potentially...
THE TAKING OF HILLMAN
Of all the D-Day fortifications barring the way to Caen, none...
Steve Snelling
World’s Oldest Surviving Combat-Veteran Tank
Museum Reveals Tank 785 Fought With No Armour THE OLDEST...
Merchant Navy WW2 George Cross To Be Sold At Auction
George Stronach GC’s medal group. ALL IMAGES COURTESY OF DIX...
Bomber Command’s First VC
Of the 32 VCs awarded during World War Two, 19 went to members...
Roderick Learoyd
Biplanes Against the German Fleet
Eugene Esmonde led an almost suicidal mission against heavily...
Eugene Esmonde
The Dambusting VC
Perhaps the most famous of all aviating VC holders, Guy Gibson...
Guy Gibson
The Last Survivor
At the time of writing former RAF Coastal Command pilot John...
John Cruickshank
Recognising the Gallant Few
It is now more than 70 years since a Victoria Cross was last...
The Legacy of the Brave
The Youngest Hero
When John Hannah was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1940 he was...
John Hannah
Heroism in ‘D for Dog’
Leslie Manser sacrificed his own life to save those of his crew...
Leslie Manser
Record Breaking Medal
When Bill Reid’s VC was sold at auction in 2009 it fetched...
William Reid
Transport Command’s VC
RAF Transport Command’s only VC recipient lost his life in...
David Lord
Joint Recipients of the RAF’s First VCs of World War Two
The first two Victoria Crosses of World War Two were awarded...
Donald Garland & Thomas Gray