Armour quiz: the Answers
Last week I put up this "How well do you know your armour?" quiz, so here are the answers.1) http://i.imgur.com/ZBmHSmg.jpg100% success rate here, its Bovington's Medium Mk.A Whippet. Its named Caesar...
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Steam and Armour
When you mention the German invasion of Holland in May 1940, most people can't name any of the battles there. The best that anyone can remember is the bombing of Rotterdam, or occasionally, for the...
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Jay Thing
In June 1966 the USMC were conducting Operation Jay, a sweep and clear operation hunting for VC forces in Quang Dien District. This is about 13 miles north of the famous city of Hue, that would reach...
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A strange Bird
This article has been written when I asked for ideas earlier in the week on Facebook. James Panganiban suggested this topic and as I have an excellent book which touches on the subject, it sounded like...
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Pride of the Royal Navy
Early in February 1910 a telegram landed on the desk of the commander of HMS Dreadnought and in it was electrifying news. Prince Musaka Ali from Abyssinia and three of his fellow princes wished to...
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Tank Terror
Tank terror is that moment when the infantryman realises he can't do anything to hurt the steel monster clanking towards him filled with malice and doom, and it's heading right towards him. At that...
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Pushback
Part oneThe right hand column was not doing as well. Initially its battle had gone much the same as the other column. Although it was late to the start line, it had rolled directly into the attack,...
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Arras and After
Over the last two weeks I've been telling the story of the Arras counter attack. They can be found here:Part one and Part two.Now one of the more interesting things during writing the article was the...
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The Great Game
It's only logical and normal for the militaries of nations to keep an eye on their neighbours and to devote a level of study to fighting them. Famous examples are War Plan Red, or the US plans for a...
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Kiel Haul
This was originally meant for last weeks article (hence the reference to tomorrow being D-day) but circumstances beyond my control meant it had to be delayed.Coincidences are a real pain in the...
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Is there a war On?
Germany, as we all know, started rearming in secret under the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. In 1931 a twin engined cargo plane pottered down the runway, it later became the Heinkel 59 float...
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Raise your Sights
Had a bit of a crazy week this week, including writing about twenty pages for other tasks, so it's a short one today as the sight of a .doc file makes me jittery at the moment... I'm afraid and it's...
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Argyll Law
"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." is an old saying that I keep on thinking about when reading about events past. So many times you see the same things happening. Compare today's...
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Two Years Difference
Earlier in the year I bumped into and got chatting to Richard Smith, the director at the Bovington Tank Museum. During the conversation he started talking about World War One, and jokingly mentioned...
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Man agaisnt Machines.
With a title like that you're likely expecting a story of a soldier facing off against a large number of enemy tanks, and you'd be right. Now before you head off it's not a story of a single British...
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Big Bang
On the 5th of July 1944 the 7146 ton Liberty Ship number 243756 left Hog Island in the US and began the long journey to the UK. Her first port of call was part of convoy HX-301. These convoys enjoyed a...
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Boats well Fort
Note: The account of the action on the night of the 22nd-23rd January, which is mentioned later in the article, comes from multiple sources. Many of these sources are confusing and contradictory. So...
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North Sea Hijack
Esther, Ruth and Jennifer is a book by Jack Davies, it's about a hijack and blackmail attempt aimed at British North Sea oil production. It was later made into a film called North Sea Hijack (Renamed...
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Smoke and Fire
I've not done a technical article for a while, and not so long ago I found a document that went into flamethrowers in excruciating detail. The data is held in a British report gathered from the MI10...
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Vehicle of fire
Due to real life circumstances, and this article in its original form being quite a bit longer than anticipated, I'll be splitting it into two parts. Last week we had a look at handheld flamethrowers....
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