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Firefighter
Between 2130 and 2145 the airfield at RAF Metheringham reverberated to the sound of hundreds of Merlin engines. One by one the Lancaster's of Bomber Command lifted into the dark sky. Their target for...
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The Future
We need a bit of a chat I'm afraid.Earlier in the week I posted a thread on my Facebook page. Simply put, I have running out of time to do everything in a week. At current, as well as all the normal...
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Attack Boat
In both World Wars the Germans very quickly, if they ever had it, lost control of the English Channel. This led to a rather unique situation where the Allies controlled the sea and could utterly...
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Radar Gunsights
I've had this report sitting on my hard drive for some years. No idea what to do with it, so might as well use it here.Centurion Mk.II Essentially, the British strapped the radar dish from one of...
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The Bionic Man
If there’s been one common theme for the second half of the last century, it is of the US armed forces spending eye-watering sums of money on advanced research ideas, which seem aimed solely at...
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The Tank That Never Was
In the early 1960's the UK was looking at doing a joint reconnaissance vehicle with the French, as both our requirements matched closely in many respects. In the end the differences were too great, the...
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Talk Time
Those of you who have been paying attention will know that my next book is out in a couple of weeks. 'Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace' covers the entire story of Britain's love of Spigot Weapons, and...
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The Mistake in North Africa
Remember: Saturday the 5th of June, free presentation and Q&A. Logistics is never sexy or exciting, but it is always vital to an army. It is even more important to an army operating in the deserts...
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Discount codes!
Remember: Saturday the 5th of June, free presentation and Q&A. It is finally here. Release date for Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace. Although it depends on whom you buy it from Amazon says it is...
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Centuion!
Yesterday we had our first live stream, with several questions asked. It went better than I had anticipated, and I didn't run too much over the time limit. However, with that, combined to a short spell...
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360 or 20?
Here's another file from the archives. As you can see, from the introduction page, its a comparison between the differences of putting a turret on a tank, and having a casemate mounted weapon.There's...
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Operation Cygnet
Last few weeks have been a bit unpleasant for me, due to repeated bouts of illness, the last one, putting my back out, has prevented me from sitting at my desk, and so I was unable to write. Hence why...
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The Inevitable Mistake
A few weeks ago I held the presentation on the Bombard in support of my new book. During the Q&A afterwards I got talking to Chris Gibson about a weapon he'd found in the National Archives, tucked...
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International Relations
Slowly, HMS Hood’s turrets swung to the broadside of the ship. The huge gun barrels elevated, and shortly afterwards massive belches of fire and smoke erupted from the guns. Its target, many miles...
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Liberating a U-boat
On the 7th of July, 1943, U-468 slipped out of the U-boat pens at La Pallice, and departed on her third patrol. Morale amongst the crew was particularly low. Over recent weeks the crew had heard of...
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Historical Duxford
Waaay back in 2014 I visited Duxford and took some pictures, I figured that those would make a nice quick article. Note: This was back before IWM Lambeth got trashed in its 'reimagining', and a lot of...
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Intelegence Files
We're going to have a quick one today, straight from the archives. A few years ago I got hold of an intelligence assessment on captured Soviet and Chinese equipment from the National Archives. This...
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Now That's Riot Control
Recently I've been volunteering with a local Police museum. This has gotten me interested in some of the early policing stuff, so today I'm going to have a look at something that is always a...
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Concrete Cows
The last couple of months have seen a handful of videos posted on YouTube about the Bison mobile pillbox. In these videos assorted commentators have laid into the Bison explaining how bad an Armoured...
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The Boys Is Back
Earlier in the week I found a document from Mid 1941 listing weapon and Ammunition production for British anti-tank weapons. As it included some oddities (such as the 18-pounder AP, or the 75mm SAP) I...
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