Malta Command WW2 LHG Welcome to Our Website! ”Malta is the unsinkable aircraft carrier”. Winston Churchill “Malta Command” is a Second World War living history or re-enactment group which aims to portray the life of men and women serving in the British Forces during the Battle of Malta...
Kingdom of Italy (1940-At Least 1954) Medium Tank – 710 Built The Carro Armato M13/40 was an Italian medium tank used with mixed results by the Italian Regio Esercito (English: Royal Army) from 1940 to 1943 in North Africa, the Balkans, and the Italian peninsula. The tank was ...
The British Mediterranean Fleet departed Alexandria, Egypt to escort a supply convoy to Malta. The fleet consisted of battleship HMS Warspite, battleship HMS Valiant, battleship HMS Malaya, battleship HMS Ramillies, aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, 12 cruisers, 16 destr...
Italian Royal Navy Tanker Stige – The ugly duckling in the “Route of Death” and the Greek Seas, by Vincenzo Giacomo Toccafondi Photo gallery: The Greek War of Independence parade, 2022 Battlefront Living History Group Malta: History lessons through reenactment, an insider’s view. Intervie...
Kingdom of Italy/United Kingdom (1929-1937) Breakthrough Tank – 1 Built Great Britain was the first nation to deploy tanks in war. The classic ‘quasi-rhomboid’-shaped tanks were first used on the fields of France in 1916. No history of those vehicles is complete without considering the...
Part of North Africa Week on WW2TV Ken Delve served 20 years in the Royal Air Force as a Navigator and during that time developed his passion for aviation and military history. From researching and publishing the history of his first squadron - 39 Squadron, which had played a major role in...
Another example of one of Southern Africa’s finest, left out of our collective consciousness as we pursue an African revolutionist interpretation of history and honour flawed men, and … so we don’t forget the deeds of much greater men, this the story of Gerard Ross ‘Toys’ Norton. From...
I’ll leave it to the reader to find out if the bottle of scotch was won or lost – but this is a human story telling element which has no real historical bearing and could easily have been left out – yet luckily, we find it in this history book – it makes it highly readable. ...
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Last Updated:Dec 6, 2024•Article History Also called: Supermarine Spitfire Key People: R.J. Mitchell Related Topics: fighter aircraft On the Web: BBC - The Spitfires that nearly broke the sound barrier(Dec. 06, 2024) ...
Crete is an Island familiar with bloodshed and invasion throughout its long history, but the invasion and four year occupation of the Island by German forces marked one of its most violent chapters. Today, war graves of both allied and German soldiers are scattered across Crete along with memor...