His VC and medal set are displayed at The Royal Hampshire Regiment museum in the UK, ever the victim of political correctness, whether by design or not, neither his homeland of South Africa or his adopted homeland of Rhodesia is mentioned on the display. Written and Researched by Peter Dicken...
It was an obvious attempt to repeat the success of Gold Medal’s edition of Tereska Torres’s Women’s Barracks, a memoir of life among the women of the Free Free forces in London, down to its cover by Barye Phillips, the same artist, showing women in much the same variety of désha...
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Stanley received the European, African, Middle Eastern Medal, Good Conduct Medal and the Victory Medal. In 2003 the POW Medal posthumously. Jane Maletz Garton Add to this record. T5. Dominick Rocco Trotta Bty A. 634th AAA AW Battalion ...
Medal of Honor: Above & Beyond is a tour de force for the Quest 2 and highlights just how much game you can pack into the Quest 2 It has some absolutely stunning moments (even with the graphical downgrades) that highlight just how far stand alone consumer VR has come in only a few ...
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[Photo] Doris Miller wearing the the Navy Cross medal, having just been awarded from Admiral Chester Nimitz, onbard carrier Enterprise, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 27 May 1942 | World War II Database
However, nationally he is not really acknowleged as a son of our land lost in one the most tumultuous wars experienced after WW2, in fact it’s very likely that this article will be an eye-opener for many South Africans. South Africa is a different matter, South Africans in trying to ...
The Sherman is the star of the show for us! It is fully functional, with working power traverse and a working main gun. All the machine guns work, and you get to shoot them as part of one of their packages. You also get to drive the tank around and fire it’s main gun if you ...
In the space of armoured six years, the MOD has purchased over 1,000 vehicles, at a price of hundreds of millions of pounds. From a procurement point of view, it is hard to believe that Urgent Operational Requirements will ever represent value for money – the troops on the ground need ...