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Panzerarmee Afrika’s Exit from El Alamein I
Plan for Operation SUPERCHARGE 1-2 November 1942 Rommel was well aware of what was happening to his forces. Above all, he needed to prevent a breakthrough. In his own words: It was only by the desperate fire of all available artillery and anti-aircraft guns, regardless of the ammunition shortage, that a further British penetration was prevented. It was now extremely…
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Saladin and Saracen
Saladin British armoured car. Following the success of the AEC Mk III and Daimler Mk II armoured cars during World War II the British army issued a requirement for a new armoured car with a 2-pdr gun. But it was soon decided that this weapon would be ineffective against the…
The Revenge
HMS Swiftsure was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Sir Anthony Deane at Harwich, and launched in 1673. By 1685 she had been reduced to a 66-gun ship. In 1692 she saw action at the Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue. She was…
Death on the Equator – Khedive Ismail 12.02.44
HIJMS Submarine I-27: Tabular Record of Movement SS Khedive Ismail The Indian Ocean was at its best, the sky a flawless blue, the sea mirror-calm, the wind a gentle breeze from the north-east. An eerie quiet lay over the ocean, with only the measured thump of the engines and the…
Operation Source: Midget Submarine Attack on the Tirpitz, 22 September 1943 Part I
BACKGROUND On 27 March 1942, British commandos attacked and destroyed the Normandie dry dock at the French port of Saint-Nazaire. This action was undertaken to prevent the German battleship Tirpitz from sailing from her anchorage in Norway into the Atlantic and then seeking refuge at Saint-Nazaire. The Normandie dry dock…
Operation Source: Midget Submarine Attack on the Tirpitz, 22 September 1943 Part II
Makin, Johne; Operation ‘Source’, 22 September 1943; Royal Navy Submarine Museum; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/operation-source-22-september-1943-23973 X-CRAFT TRAINING By August 1942, most of the volunteers had been screened, and those that met the standards were sent to HMS Varbel at Port Bannatyne, Scotland, to begin training. Varbel was the old Kyles Hydropathic Hotel and…
