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By words Gerry van Tonder 3rd September 2021

… in Herefordshire. The squadron had its origins in World War Two when No 8 (Guards) Commando officer David Sterling … SAS provided a second source of recruits, this time from Britain. Redesignated ‘B’ Squadron, Malayan Scouts, the new … arose in 1962 for C Squadron to participate in a joint exercise with the British 22 SAS in the East Aden …

16th June 2021

… BATTLE OF VIMY RIDGE Vimy Ridge was the first joint outing for the four divisions of the CEF and, as Gerry … powerful symbol of national achievement and sacrifice in a war that saw 630,000 Canadians enlist – most of them … was years away from legislative independence. So when Britain declared war, Canada automatically found itself …

19th May 2021

… the myth “A complex, tortured, unconventional and daring war hero” TE LAWRENCE, AN ICONIC FIGURE OF THE EARLY 20TH … retreated into private life. During the war, a hardpressed Britain had given undertakings about the future of the Middle … They were legends, but behind them lay a sense of their joint insatiate savagery in destroying till there was no more …

23rd February 2021

… Anglo-Irish War / 1 100th  Anniversary Did British commander Nevil … Rule was stalled, Ulster being excluded from it in 1914. Britain’s entry into World War One temporarily defused … in a farmhouse at Clonmult, was destroyed in February in a joint military and Auxiliary operation. Of the 20-strong …

28th January 2021

… PART II In part two of ‘Could Britain Have Fallen?’ Peter Caddick-Adams unfolds the way in … anything the Germans and Italians combined could bring to war – but it magnified the peril Churchill understood might … nor the training or means to gain it. (Part one of this article features in our January issue no. 165). BATTLE OF …

28th January 2021

… OPERATION Britain’s role in driving Saddam Hussein from Kuwait is … to avoid his men becoming consumed by the ‘red mist’ of war or unbridled blood lust. British soldiers had been … province. September 11, 1990: President Bush addresses a joint session of Congress and declares “It is Iraq against …

By Michael E Haskew 30th July 2020

… Michael E Haskew profiles the tortuous development of Britain’s early 1960s nuclear deterrent.  Michael E Haskew … As superpower relations deteriorated during the early Cold War, nuclear deterrence became the order of the day. … in his decision to cancel the Skybolt programme. In a joint statement released in December of that year, Kennedy …

30th July 2020

… assaults on Japan that brought about the end of World War Two, British and Commonwealth forces played a key role in … caught up in victory fever, any references to Britain’s Fourteenth Army in Burma, the Australian advance in … of Honshu, near Tokyo. Coronet would have included a joint Commonwealth Corps, made up of infantry divisions from …

By John Ash 25th June 2020

… ‘bulldog’ who had led them to victory after six years of war. John Ash investigates the vote that changed the course … 5, 1945 – but surely, as the wartime leader who mobilised Britain, his position was not in doubt? After the conference … which ran until 1960. First proposed in 1944 it ranks, joint with the development of a nuclear capability, as the …

By Tim Ripley 19th March 2020

… Britain’s Royal Navy has led the world in operating aircraft … of the Admiralty, just in time for the start of World War Two. In this conflict, Royal Navy aviators scored notable … An example of this – as mentioned at the start of this article – is the Grande Tema operation carried out on the …

20th February 2020

… history, including service during the Battle of Britain in 1940, when it was flying the Hurricane. In 1969, … Corps version of the badge which originated during World War One. Jamie Hunter Below: The No 1(F) Squadron patch for … from the squadron visited Croatia for the Flying Sabre 18 joint training event with the Croatian Air Force, operating …

20th February 2020

… With a long history as a fighter unit, including Battle of Britain service, No 3(F) Squadron provided air defence for … time RAF fighters had been stationed in London since World War Two. More recently, and on behalf of NATO, No 3(F) … from where they conducted air-land training exercises with Joint A Typhoon in No 3(F) Squadron markings is prepared for …

27th February 2020

… The Blue Steel standoff nuclear missile was meant to put Britain on a par with her American allies, and, hopefully, … during the succession of V1 and V2 strikes later in the war. On leaving school, he began working for Marconi … of Adelaide. The base, built in 1955, was developed as a joint Anglo-Australian facility for weapons testing. It was …

By Michael E Haskew 24th December 2019

… mightily to the special relationship between Great Britain and the United States just at the time when the … CEMETERY) These were the dark days of 1940, with the war in its second year and Churchill had railed on the topic … Franklin D Roosevelt that produced the Atlantic Charter, a joint statement of understanding regarding wartime goals and …

18th April 2019

… Tim Ripley looks back at the 78-day air campaign. Air War Analysis On a wintery March evening, six giant B-52H … beginning to end. I watched jets taking off from bases in Britain and Italy to hit targets in Yugoslavia, as well as … combat use of the satellite-guided 2,000lb (907kg) GBU- 31 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) from B-2 bombers in …