A detailed look at “Faith”, the only surviving Gloster Gladiator from the Battle of Malta Photo gallery, WW2 A detailed presentation of the BSA M20 motorbike at the St. Elmo Museum in Malta Photo gallery, WW2 The Greek Navy minesweeper “Nestos” wreck, sunk in 1941, unveiled by Geor...
Author’s poster of the Portuguese Navy in WW2. It shows all significant vessels, listed, from 1939 to 1945. Basically the home waters could rely on five modern destroyers and three submarines. The rest was made of modern, powerful gunboats (The Albuquerque could engage destroyers), light gun...
Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell saw much more than his fair share of action during the Second World War. He was present at the 1942 landing in North Africa (Operation TORCH), D-Day and the liberation of Norway. But his main area of operations was the Arctic Convoys, escorting merchant ships...
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And, as befits a story set in the small, cramped world of a cipher unit, where everything is a secret and everyone lives in each other’s pocket, throughout there is a sense of claustrophobia and paranoia quite at odds with the increasingly cosy way that current WW2 novels portray ...
Mitchum though he was in the merchant marine before World War II is as new to the navy as most of his crew.Lurking beneath is Curt Jurgens in command of a U-Boat. Jurgens is a career navy man who's already given much for the fatherland, two sons lost. His submarine is on courier ...
2001. The story was very faithfully recreated in the 1956 movie of the same name starring Clifton Webb as Montagu. I first read this book as a teenager and saw the film a short time later. I would recommend either or both to anyone, and especially to those with an interest in WW2 ...
During WW2, Italian Navy divers use underwater chariots to mine the keels of British warships, forcing the British to send underwater demolition expert Lionel Crabbe and his team to counter these enemy actions. Read more: Plot summary Director William Fairchild (directed by) Writers Marshall ...
The Mediterranean became an active theater of war when Italy entered the war (June 1940). Italy had a modern fleet and with France out of the War, immediately challenge the beleagered Royal Navy for control of the Mediterranean . The Italian fleet suppo
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