The NORMANDY TANK MUSEUM is located in Manche, on the municipality of Catz and the community of municipality of Carentan. It is ideally implanted on the historic site of the airfield A10 AIRFIELD built from June 15th till June 18th, 1944 by the 826th Battalion of Air Engineering, to receive the first devices P47 Thunderbolt, on June 19th during the [...]
It was a CSI Cold Case like no other. The missing person was a machine and a world icon- the Spitfire fighter. The crime scene was a battle-scarred airfield in the Far East. And the crime, if it took place at all, took place more than sixty five years ago. Wargaming, 15 April, 2013 – In January 2013 the World’s media watched [...]
Dear all, With regret, and after much soul-searching, /Living-History Museum at the former RAF Bicester Aerodrome following the sale of the site by the MoD to another organisation (confusingly called) “Bicester Heritage Ltd” and their plans for a commercial business park based on vintage motoring. BCH has worked tirelessly over the last 8-years to secure RAF Bicester for Public benefit [...]
The American author Philip Kaplan is right at home with the Battle of Britain and his writing appeals to me very much. He brings a warmth to it like many Anglophiles appear to do and he has become immersed in it. This latest work finds him retracing the life not of an Englishman, but of the South African Adolph Malan, [...]
The story of two 101st Airborne Screaming Eagle Medics on D-Day, June 6th, 1944. In Angoville-au-Plain, a small village between Utah Beach and Carentan, two medics treated over eighty casualties – American, German and French inside a 12th Century church. The book covers these events and also the history of the village throughout WWII. Internationally recognized D-Day historian and tour [...]
News about Visit Flanders’ premier partnership of World Travel Market in 2013 and 2014 was revealed to the audience and representatives of WTM also attended to address the audience. The trip also provided an opportunity for the group to experience the very poignant Last Post Ceremony, which takes place every evening in Ypres by the Menin Gate in remembrance of [...]
Wings & Wheels 2013 Following on from their success over the years the event is growing into weekend that needs to be in your diary. Situated at the famous airfield of Upottery which is where elements of the 101st airborne left for Normandy. And more specifically men from E Company which were made famous by the miniseries Band of Brothers. [...]
Churchill’s secret army deserves one last mission to march past the Cenotaph The team behind the British Resistance Archive calls for Cenotaph honour for members of the Auxiliary Units. Each year we watch proudly as veterans from conflicts across the 20th and 21st centuries march past the Cenotaph in central London. Stories are retold; tales of bravery highlighted and the [...]
Battle Plans This year’s mock battle is to be the most ambitious attempted to date, with Museum planning a spectacle of co-ordinated vehicle movement, infantry action and pyrotechnics. The `cold war` theme will provide the backdrop to the biggest re-enactment ever undertaken in the Museum arena. But it will take numerous hours to make sure that it all comes together; [...]
Every year the WWII Weekend at Tyntesfield is the largest outing for the Shopland Collection. All in all nearly thirty items from the collection are on display. The event is organise by the National Trust and the Shopland Collection in conjunction with Western Area of the IMPS and the Blitz Buddies. The event is focused on WWII, but there is [...]
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