Khan, who was of Indian descent (in fact, a direct descendent of Tipu Sultan of Mysore), had escaped to England from her home in Paris after the fall of France during World War II. She joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in November, 1940, and in 1942 was recruited to ...
[James Johnson | Barrow-upon-Soar, England | CPC]12 Mar 1915 United Kingdom The British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, signed a secret pact with the Russian Ambassador in London, England, United Kingdom giving Russia the right to post-war control of Constantinople and the Turkish Str...
the resources of the RAF (Royal Air Force) had all but been consumed and the most critical period of the war had to be endured, as the Germans focused their devastating attacks on the airfields of southern England. On the 20th of August, Churchill gave ...
The Blitz (September 7, 1940–May 11, 1941), bombing campaign undertaken by Nazi Germany against Britain during World War II. For eight months planes of the Luftwaffe dropped bombs on London and other strategic cities. The offensive came to be called the
World War II - Invasion, Low Countries, France: The French had not progressed beyond the defensive mentality inherited from World War I, and they relied primarily on their Maginot Line for protection against a German offensive.
Young people in a car celebrate victory in Europe at the end of World War II, in Baltimore, Maryland, May 8, 1945. People crowd on top of a van during a V-E Day celebration in London. Patients at England's Horley Military Hospital, all severely wounded in France and Italy, celebrate...
The article discusses research by A. Robert MacKenzie of the University of Birmingham, England, which examines the impact of condensation trails, or contrails, of aircraft on the climate during the second world war.HadhazyAdamNatural History
The Battle of Britain took place between June 1940 and April 1941 . It was an aerial war fought mainly between the Royal Air Force (Britain) and the Luftwaffe (German airfare). During this battle, many cities in England were savagely bombed by the Nazis. More than 23,000 people in the...
Categories Short Reviews, Wafer-Thin Books Tags England, internment, Livia Laurent, memoir, World War Two The Colours of the Night, by Catherine Ross (1962) 19 October 2023 The colours of the night in Catherine Ross’s title aren’t romantic in the least. They’re the colors of the sig...
showing how aerial views operate as a form of world-making tied to the times and places of war. Kaplan’s investigation of the aerial arts of war—painting, photography, and digital imaging—range from England’s surveys of Scotland following the defeat of the 1746 Jacobite rebellion and early...